Help with downloading of attachments
- Posted February 28th, 2008 at 12:04 pm by AndrewM
- Categories: Yahoo! Mail UK
We’ve been listening to your feedback over these past months since the all-new mail came out of beta. One of the features that you asked for was a way to download multiple attachments at once. Well, we heard you loud and clear.
So, over the next few days we will be rolling this feature out. Here is a screenshot of how it will look in your message. So when you receive a message that contains more than one attachment, you’ll see this:
All you have to do is click “Download All” to get all at once!
(Note: Occasionally, you may not see the Download All link above a message with multiple attachments. Sometimes the manner in which an individual file is named prevents it from being grouped together with other files. In these cases, you’ll need to download attachments the old way, one by one.)
As with many of our enhancements to mail, not everyone gets the new feature at once. So if you don’t see the “Download All” link, be patient, everyone will have this feature soon.
** Please note… The download all feature will download all the files into one compressed (.zip) file which then needs to be unzipped in order to view all the files. Windows XP and Vista both deal with .zip files as part of the operating system. If you are having trouble with the “download all” feature, you may need to install Winzip or another file compression software.
Happy emailing!
Andrew – Yahoo! Mail Team
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February 29th, 2008 at 10:46 am
please keep on sending good tips to me
February 29th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Requested this a few months ago. Glad its now coming out. Excellent
February 29th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
download all great update just the trick
February 29th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
i want to download all attachments atonce.
February 29th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
new yahoo mail is excellent .i want to download all attachments atonce.
February 29th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
So I asked around the team, and what I’ve found a large percentage of users do… They open an Internet browser, and then search for Yahoo Mail, and then click the Yahoo Mail search result. I’m going to assume that it’s mostly Internet explorer for the browser and mostly some other search engine I’m not going to name ;). But then that’s probably what my mum would do too, whereas I would never think to do that. But since my mum doesn’t know what a URL is or what http:// stands for, it makes more sense to me now. I’ve been immersed in this stuff for so long now, what seems second nature to me is completely foreign to someone like my mum.
February 29th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
just wanna say thanks for thinking about us
February 29th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
nice it works
February 29th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Thanks for the continuous updates and for making the Yahoo experience better.
February 29th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
New features of yahoo are awsome. Thanks yahoo…
Keep the flag flying
February 29th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
All attachments at once thats rocking.That will save me time.More time for music.
February 29th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Yahoo is good, but I find the SEND button and the DELETE button are two close could they not be better spaced?
February 29th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
I feel that if yahoo had a separate division / group that will cater to business e mail ids e.g yahoobiz then it can be very useful for many SMEs. With yahoo constantly innovating & providing built in antivirus solutions etc it could add real value to sme operations. If this is acceptable, the same idea can be expanded to provide customised web page etc etc
February 29th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
its cool get it while you can
February 29th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
I can not open an attachment even though I click on the attachment box with my e-mail . It gives me option to download and when I cklick this option, it opens the the download window and keeps transferring informations and never finishes
February 29th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
DOWNLOAD ALL is great BUT they then save in attachments and I have to open them 1 by 1 – cant see them all within the context of the e-mail – any suggestions please
February 29th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Download all. Gr8
February 29th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
gREat stuff
February 29th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Absolutely great!!!!!!!
February 29th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
it is nice to hear about an update in new version of Yahoo mail.
THUMBS UP 2 YAHOO MAIL
February 29th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
All I have to say is THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
Sylvia
February 29th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
I can not open an attachment even though I click on the attachment box with my e-mail . It gives me option to download and when I cklick this option, it opens the the download window and keeps transferring informations and never finishes, so then I have to delete the attachments without seeing them.
Kind regards
Brenda Clark.
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Hi Brenda,
I’m sorry to hear that you’re having difficulties with the attachments. I suggest that you contact customer care regarding your attachment difficulties. They will be able to see if there is anything wrong. You can find out how to contact them here:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/uk/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/contactus/
Thanks,
Andrew – Yahoo! Mail Team
February 29th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Thanks for supporting Mozilla Firefox (open-source browser).
February 29th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
TRULY INDEED THE BEST OPTION AVAILABLE N WELL ORGANISED
March 1st, 2008 at 6:50 am
Glad to know that you are working so hard to serve us better; keep the good job and hope I am going to be informed of any new developments as they unrolls. Cheers!
March 1st, 2008 at 6:52 am
I *LOVE* Yahoo Mail’s Web interface and the fact that it works with IE (Windows), Firefox and now even Safari (oh yes, it already did, but now the compatibility warning’s gone…). I would just like to see POP/IMAP access becoming available for free, as I cannot opt in for Yahoo Mail Plus because it’s not offered in my country. I use Yahoo Mail UK because of legislation issues in the US which I oppose and which are not there in the UK, but if it were available I’d like to use an English language version of Yahoo Mail Netherlands. Yahoo Mail doesn’t even have a regionalised mail version for my country. Therefore, I’m also unable to use Yahoo Mail Plus. I would have done that if I could, because I’ve been using Yahoo for over 17 years now (first US, now UK). And with the all new interface for Mail, I don’t think I’ll quit easily. POP/IMAP access would be finishing it all nicely; especially since some connections may be slowing things down… Kwwp up the good work.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:53 am
Please give the facility for two people working from the same PC to log on at the same time. My husband and I need to constantly log each other out in order to access our emails.
Regards
Catherine
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Hi Caterine,
As a matter of fact, you can work from the same PC at the same time. However, you’ll need to use different Web browsers to do that. For example, you can be logged on using Internet Explorer, and your husband can be logged on using the Firefox web browser. Give that a try.
Thanks,
Andrew – Yahoo! Mail Team
March 1st, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Andrew thanks alot for keeping me posted
Tilly
March 1st, 2008 at 4:04 pm
A friend sent me a load of pics last nite and I was delighted to find this new feature in my email today. So much easier!!! Thank you
March 1st, 2008 at 10:17 pm
please please please could we have some pretty choices to decorate our emails with. They are soooooo boring!!! I used to use incredimail but now sky, my internet provider, has stopped sending outgoing email from my incredimail so I use Yahoo now but I hate the plain boring thing day after day of plain white background and its driving me mad!!! take a tip from incredimail and spice your emails up before I get driven out to find a solution lol
Thanks
Debbie
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:05 pm
new yahoomail is splendid.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
thats great i always get annoyed when i have to wait for ages to download things but now i dont have to.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Talking of downloads, since my cat trashed my laptop which had windows xp, and hence having to get another computer which is now vista, email attachments have become laborious to say the least. I try to open them, but I have to save them into works folder before I can read them…is there anyway I can change this so I can just read them from my mail??
Many thanks:-)
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:31 pm
I have a request about attachments, especially photos.
Yahoo is particularly slow and very restricted when it comes to this feature. It takes forever to upload a picture. I have also tried ti zip pictures to send off, but that doesn’t seem to work any better.
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:26 pm
This is a great addition. Thanks
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:38 pm
thanks for this! Yahoo! Mail is now better than Outlook 2003 which I use at work. Wonderful….. Now if only you can master the spamfilter it would be awesome.
March 4th, 2008 at 6:59 am
This is quite wonderful and time saving
March 4th, 2008 at 7:01 am
This is great. Thanks
March 4th, 2008 at 7:22 am
dats very gr8.thanx
March 4th, 2008 at 7:46 am
good
March 4th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Its such a relief to be able to download all attachments at once! the yahoo!mail beta is cool but im getting tired of seeing spam in my inbox.please, can you do something about these spammers?
March 4th, 2008 at 10:56 am
thanks for a very good tip.
March 4th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Thanks for ever things
March 4th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
how does it work for my cell. theres to much stuff for my cell to download all at once. I guese I can choose wether to download all at once or just what I want.
March 4th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
i find it really hard to download photos and also some yahoo email addresses are not accessable.
March 4th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
downloaded attachment, cant find it, where could it be hiding? Please help
March 5th, 2008 at 6:54 am
That’s great! Downloading all attachments at once is a brilliant idea
March 5th, 2008 at 10:40 am
spot on yahoo!!you guys are as innovative as ever!!
March 5th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Thanks, but still got a problem of sending pictures.
I can’t send more than 2 pictures. I don’t know the problem.
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Hi Parfait,
I don’t know why you would have problems sending pictures. Remember that you have a 10 MegaByte limit with attachments. So, maybe your pictures are really big and you’re reaching the maximum attacment size.
Thanks,
Andrew – Yahoo! Mail Team
March 5th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Hi Yahoo,
I love the Beta version but I find it really difficult to update my contacts and get them to stay how I put them! In the old version I had created various groups which obviously transferred to the new version but in order to put my new contacts into their correct groups I have to revert back to the old classic as it’s easier to add and edit contacts and stays how I put it! There is no longer options to put your new contacts into various groups easily. Help!! They just won’t stay! When I get to the save page a popup comes up to ask me if I want to save (again!) and I find this is just a continuous loop until I eventually have to cancel the whole thing and go to the classic to sort it out!
March 5th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Good idea. Saves a lot of time. Well done!
March 5th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Wow! excited as I always find it difficult to download attachments one after the other.
March 5th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Hi Andrew and the Yahoo team,
It’s really great the way you always listen and improve on the features of yahoo mail for your teaming friends. You can only get better.
Please keep it up.
Mukhtar
March 5th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Great innovation keep them coming. This is emailing for the 21st. century. Thanks
March 5th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
I tried ‘download all’ once it appeared on my account. What it does to download all pictures in winzip file to unzip. Unfortunately I do not have one. A better solution/suggestion expected. Thanks.
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Hi A K,
Sorry to hear that you’re having problems downloading all attachments at the same time. You will need a program to unzip the files when you download all attachments. Please see my note at the end of the blog post.
Thanks,
Andrew – Yahoo! Mail Team
March 6th, 2008 at 7:02 am
very good! excelent! i’ve been waiting for it for ages! it was bloody difficult to download all attachments separatley! :( thanks yahoo for good, improved and colourful service :P nice job!
March 6th, 2008 at 7:44 am
The calendar’s great and very usefull, however I’ve given up on the all new mail and removed it as it’s always playing up
March 6th, 2008 at 7:45 am
The calendar’s great and very usefull, however I’ve given up on the all new beta mail and removed it as it’s always locking up my friends
March 6th, 2008 at 8:57 am
THANKS FOR A LOT OF TIME SAVING TIPS.
GR8.
March 6th, 2008 at 10:10 am
its good that you can download all attachments all at once
March 6th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Excellent. I love my Yahoo mail. It works a treat on my iPhone too.
March 6th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Please give users the facility to see when a message has been opened. Really need it.
Thanks
March 6th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
this will save a lot of time.being able to download all attachments at once thanks.
March 7th, 2008 at 2:39 am
I would like to see a feature that allow user to download a no of emails to the local drive. This feature is useful especially in area where internet connection is slow.
Rgds
K C Tay
March 7th, 2008 at 7:32 am
Hi Andrew! I’ve used the Download All feature a couple of times, and every time I have ended up with an incomplete download of a zip file, which obviously won’t open. Is there still a bug somewhere? I’m on WinXPSP2/IE7.
March 7th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Brilliant innovation…..if downloading all is possible I presume attaching all is likewise possible. Looking fwd for attaching all. Thanx….
March 7th, 2008 at 11:12 am
If all mails inside INBOX can be grouped on sender’s name or mail ID, there will be nothing like it. a + sign can be placed on sender’s ID with number counter for unread mails indicating that there are ‘n’ no. of unread mails, something like this:
From:
+sender1@yahoo.com(54)
+sender2@gmail.com(7)
+sender3@hotmail.com(2)
Thanks/Regards
Anil Chauhan
March 7th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
DOWNLOAD ALL facility is a good development. Keep it up.
Thanks
March 8th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Been waiting for this!! Good old Yahoo! *****
March 9th, 2008 at 9:57 am
I would like to see a feature that allow user to download a no of emails to the local drive. This feature is useful especially in area where internet connection is slow.
regard
abdullah
March 9th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
About time to this has been a feature on Outlook for years!
Well done Yahoo
March 10th, 2008 at 10:18 am
This is yet another great feature that makes Yahoo! mail so unique. Keep up the good work guys!
March 10th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Thanks a lot ! That’s why we love Yahoo mail!
March 10th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
this is great, no problems. Beta does have a problem with lists. you cannot catagorise contacts, I had to switch back to classic to create a list, also I could not send a list with 100 contacts, I had to send via classic. Please advise!
March 11th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Thanks yahoo team, I really appreciate you for putting time to support us.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:46 am
The day I changed to Yahoo was the best thing I did on my computer, my son told me to do it and am I glad, I love it, I never have any problems and yahoo are always coming up with new ideas and things to enjoy yahoo even more, thank you Christine Cook
March 11th, 2008 at 10:24 am
I’m using and Window Vista MOS. The thing is if I’m making and email with a document attachment and send it to the addressee – they cannot open the document which I had done in Word. Any advice to resolve the problem is much appreciated. Thanks.
March 11th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Thank you Yahoo for adding this feature :-]
thanks to this I do not need to forward some of the message to other email :P
is it possible to add – download all files compressed with rar -
it should handle all of file naming :P
March 11th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Thanks yahoo team, I really appreciate you for putting time to support us
March 11th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Thanks for adding these features
March 11th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
ok so downloading all the attchments from one mail is nice… but…. on the old mail you could look under “my photo’s” or “my attachment’s” and then “check off” a bunch to download at once… my girl likes to send me pictures from here phone… one pic per mail… but a TON of mail daily…. as it stands now i tend to sign in…. put all the amil in a “new pics” folder… then switch to old mail… view by photo… sort by that “new pic” folder then check 1-25 and DL go back and do 25-50 ect ect…. any way to fix the new mail like the old one?
March 12th, 2008 at 12:26 am
Thank you soooo much
March 12th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
As always another super idea from Yahoo. Please can you organise some nice backgrounds for our emails, it would be lovely to have a coloured background or soft scenes or bouquets of flowers in the corners etc. This is available on premium, but be super on the regular email site. Please allow my wish to come true. Three cheers for yahoo, yahoo yahoo.
March 12th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
There should be a Yahoo business e-mail package. Where you have your own master login and can create passwords and issue to your employees, as well as disable there password entry, autoresponder into web back-end would be neat as well.
I would definitly pay for this service especially if it had unlimited storage as well as a back-up vault mechanism and ssl as standard.
Also when is Yahoo going to buy sKype, or merge, a nice skype interface would do the trick too. Peace out…..
March 12th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
The feature will be of immense help in handling attachments. Bravo Yahoo!
March 12th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
My coloured or moving attachments open on my
yahoo but not on my windows mail (vista).Do
you know why?
March 12th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Brilliant
March 12th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Another great feature I would like as a yahoo mail user is pop3 settings for free mail users. I also like the web interface but read all my other mail via a client like MS Outlook and Windows Live Mail.
March 13th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Hi Yahoo, I have just downloaded Windows Vista home premium and having some problems with my VGA anti-virus upgrading but your Yahoo comes through loud and clear every time, many many thanks and keep up the good work please.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Great news – works well. How about a reply all button now !!
March 13th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Hi,
Great addition to a great email service, one complaint though is my email being treated as spam – even if I have added myself to my inbox as a known addressee, it still goes in my spam!!! Fine for me, because I look there, but not great for people I email who don’t check their spam inbox!!
Any solutions coming??
Beth
March 13th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
I think a business that constantly listens to its customers and makes efforts to address their concerns is much cherished by all consumers;Yahoo has led the way. A leader by all indications. Great feature indeed! Well done.
March 13th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Yahoo Mail gets better and better – I have often wished that Yahoo had this feature and now it has – thanks.
March 13th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
is it possible to block people who are not on my contact list from sending unsolicited mails to me. it is very depressing having to delet e loads of messages everyday.
March 14th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Yes I keep having the same problem as Brenda Clark above (Number 22). I can not open an attachment even though I click on the attachment box with my e-mail . It gives me option to download and when I click this option, it opens the download window and keeps transferring informations and never finishes. However, when I change to the Classic Version my attachments open normally!
March 15th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
What a great product from Yahoo.
March 15th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
This is just too good. Bravo!
March 16th, 2008 at 10:26 am
I love yahoo very much and i appreciate.
March 16th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Thanks yahoo!
Now I can get all the attachments at once! It was difficult to get them seperatly. Thanks again yahoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 16th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
YAHOO MALE GETS BETTER AND BETTER
I DONT THINK IT CAN GET ANY BETTER
THANK YOU SO MUCH
March 16th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
browsing more convienent, keep given us the best.
March 16th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
i am happy to have this new faetue
March 17th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Hi Yahoo, I just can’t beleive that you have not responded back to me about the fact that I can’t respond back to a e-mail and when I reply back on to the same e-mail it keep on telling me KEEP ON TRYING AGAIN LATER. I really need to know why I can’t get my e-mail throught to my clients. PLEASE HELP HELP HELP
Bonny Parr
March 18th, 2008 at 10:57 am
YAHOO! You are the BEST!
March 18th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
can you help me with this new feature. Thanks
March 18th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
yahoo is the best so what we say Yahoo go go
March 18th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
yahoo is getting better everyday.I love YAHOO………………………………………………………….
March 18th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
The idea is very good and its helps the user very much. Very smart Yahoo!
March 18th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
It is a great feature, easy to use and time saving.
March 18th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
This is so wonderful yahoo the world will love u yahoo keep it up
March 18th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Must be good it will not Download on my pc
March 18th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
very nice
March 18th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
yahoo mail is too excellent than other website. I’m very happy to this site. Thanks a lot
March 18th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Re comments 15 and 22 above, ie problem opening attachments. I have the same problem as the 2 people here it has been going on for months. I have repeatedly asked for help but nothing worlks. Nice to know it isn’t just me!
March 18th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Good work keep it up
March 19th, 2008 at 4:51 am
have just learnt about download all feature, that’s great any chance of introducing a feature to upload several attachments, that would be a real help.
By the way, I have just converted a friend from Gmail to Yahoo, isn’t that just great awasome.
March 19th, 2008 at 6:46 am
we appreciate it.
March 19th, 2008 at 9:46 am
The new system of downloading multiple information at a time is highly wellcomed as this will save time and cost respectively.
March 19th, 2008 at 9:58 am
IIt is really an additional improvement that added value to the existing creativity that will take us to new level in information technology.
March 19th, 2008 at 10:58 am
excellent
March 19th, 2008 at 11:02 am
yu get me goin , i get on line anywhere ,anytime
thanx
March 19th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
could you find out a way out to attach multiple emails to outgoing mails at one time
March 19th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Very very useful and easy to use.
This will keep one accessible to all the attachments at a glance
Keep it up!
March 19th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
is great to be with u!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 19th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Re comments 15 and 22 above, ie problem opening attachments. I have the same problem as the 2 people here it has been going on for months. I have repeatedly asked for help but nothing worlks. Nice to know it isn’t just me!
HELP …WE ARE SO MANY HAVE THIS PROBLEM ??
March 22nd, 2008 at 2:25 pm
yahoo is getting better everyday.I love YAHOO……………………………………………………
yahoo mail is too excellent than other website. I’m very happy to this site. Thanks a lot
March 24th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
I have just signed on with Bt. all these tips are very helpful. Thank you all
March 26th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
I have the same problem reported by 15, 22, 113 and 124. Sometimes I have a pdf file, that when I click download -> open, the download window appears and keeps transferring information but never finishes. I have another email provider and it opens just fine with it. Also, if I right click and select “save file as” it downloads a file named “Showletter”. Which is just a small HTML file. Any ideas?
March 28th, 2008 at 10:57 am
The problem with opening attachments as mentioned by 15, 22, 113, 124 and 127 could be related to IE. I was getting the same issues until I used Firefox as the browser and it opens the attachments with no problems.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
I get a lot of attachments and find the ‘download aa’ very useful. It’s got to be better than twenty clicks!
May 29th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
[...] oohs and ahhs have worn off, this is what I REALLY like about this new feature… If you liked the download all feature, you’re really going to love this. ‘3’ allows you select from the attached pictures and only [...]
June 21st, 2008 at 3:27 pm
I’m afraid I’m not a fan.
The speed is dire and I cannot open an attachment at all, never mind several at once.
Seriously thinking of ditching it altogether.
July 8th, 2008 at 9:06 am
The next tool needed is one to allow me to retain an email but delete attachments. The only current option seems to be deleting the whole email?
July 26th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
How about being able to download just one email.
I have been unable to view any attachments for months using BT Yahoo ! and there appear to be few ideas as to what is causing it.
Before adding functionality, would it not be a good idea to consolidate by fixing these obvious issues first. I have seen this problem on so many sites. Problems, but no solutions.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:30 am
This sucks I waited to attach a file for 2 hours and I just finally gave up. This sucks.
September 17th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
I don’t have time to read all of this so I’ll just ask.
Is there a way to download ALL the atachements from ALL the e-mails in one folder? I have a lot of e-mails with funny stuff such as pictures, movies, pps… I do not have the time to acces all the e-mails, start the download, wait for the download and then go to another e-mail. I just want to leave the PC on and let it download for a few days.
So.. how about it… Can I do that?
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Hi Bobby,
The only way to do that would be to POP your mail from Yahoo using a mail client like Outlook or Thunderbird. UK mail users (@yahoo.co.uk) can do it for free. If you are a US mail user (@yahoo.com) you will have to sign up for Mail Plus.
Hope that helps.
Andrew – Yahoo Mail Team