I did set up a gmail account and exported but like I said in the email it stalled after maybe 20 folders of archived emails. The gmail info said it could take up to two days to complete but after a week it was still missing most of the folders.
I will look into your suggestion of MailStore. I run the basic yahoo mail page that ATT uses. My understanding is this is just Yahoo mail with ATTs blessing but I've never been able to clarify if my @pacbell.net account would disappear if I were to cancel the ATT Dsl as my ISP. I couldn't seem to find much info on switch ISPs and merging existing data. The manual process of resending each email would be pretty daunting and it would created new dates for the emails which would make it hard to use chronology of the email to help find needed data.
To be honest I had never thought to backup my emails and I don't know why that never crossed my mind.
---In avid-l2@yahoogroups.com, <wilsonchao@...> wrote :
John,
This shouldn't be so hard; just copy your archived emails to your new gmail account. What? You say you don't regularly back up your emails to a local archive? Oops! Now's a good time to start... I use Mailstore because it works just fine and it's free:
MailStore Home – Free Email Archiving and Backup for Home Users
To migrate to gmail, simply export your archived messages to your new account - easy peasy. And as an added bonus, you'll have peace of mind knowing your emails are safe even if the cloud fails you.
Wilson
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 1:29 PM, bigfish@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
When I checked my bill several months back I am paying way too much. Something in the neighborhood of 45 bucks a month for this crappy service. I will switch to a Time Warner Cable modem when I come up for air. Part of my issue, and I posted about this months ago, is I have so much email data stored in folders on my ATT email account I can't find out if I drop ATT will my account be terminated. It is a Yahoo account but it goes through ATT and my domain is an old pacbell.net. I did a lot of googling months back and the best I found was that I could migrate the folders to a gmail account which I tried but it only took a few of the folders over. The process says it may take days but even after a week it only had a few of the folders transfered over.
They seem to make finding out specifics of keeping your email account after changing ISPs very difficult. I would have thought it would be a common occurrence and a quick google would show me the way but that was not the case. I'm not ruling out that I am google challanged but I even contacted Time Warner and they said they could migrate my account info, including folders, into a new account with them but when I tried to be specific about the folder transfers I was told oh yeah they can do that but I was talking to the sales department and I didn't have much confidence in their assurances that it would work.
Posted by: bigfish@pacbell.net
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