Fw: Jim Bell's Email crash

[David]

On 1/30/14 2:20 PM, jim bell wrote:

> (Raising the question:  Is there a reasonably straightforward mechanism
> to allow a disgusted user to (easily and automatically) transfer all of
> his emails from one system to another?  Obviously, email service
> providers are motivated to try to lock in users, but maybe there's a way
> to fight this.)


IMAP.

I have IMAP set up on my Yahoo account:

Server: imap.mail.yahoo.com
Port: 993
Username: xxx at yahoo.com
SSL/TLS


Then I can just transfer messages to another IMAP account.