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SO, i have sbc yahoo dsl and i have an @ameritech.net email address, and have been using the sbc browser for awhile now. I recently got sick of it,and decided to check out outlook express for email, and opera for borwsing. Outlook works much better, but the only problem now is that all of the emails in my inbox at yahoo.com are gone. Are they no longer stored on the server? or is there a setting somewhere so if my HD gets formatted i won t lose my emails. If anyone knows any info on this, pls let me know, thanks in advance
 
Is this a yahoo.com e-mail ? You probably did not sign in in certain time period so they deleted your stuff,
 
no, i sign in every day, I think it might be that outloook has taken all the emails from the inbox or something, which is why ima sking here cause i dont know
 
In outlook express, go to tools, accounts, choose the account and click on properties, go to the advanced tab, and check the box for 'leave messages on server.' you'll probably also wanna check the last box for 'remove from server when deleted from deleted items'

That won't put the messages you already had back onto the server, but it will keep OE from removing anything else until you explicitly delete it.
 
what did it do, take every one of my mesages off of the server and put them on my computer? It seems a little strange, why not leave them on there to begin with?
 
With POP3 the default action is to download email and take it off the server. This used to be an issue when storage was more costly and ISP's didn't want to have a monster email archive from their customers. That, and it was just the design of the POP3 protocols.

Personally, I always use IMAP. IMAP allows you to access your mail from multiple different clients/locations/webmail while retaining read/unread status, folder location, etc. IMAP downloads only the message headers and does not even download the message body until you select the message and your client will then pull it from the server. This alone is a nice feature since it helps a bit when trying to combat virii and those spam messages that embed those little 1x1 pixel images to track you. It also makes backups real easy and centralize.
 
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