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- Now what?
Now it’s time to pay for a good email service, like Tuta, Proton or Fastmail.
by dotcoma - Thanks, I'm already on Proton, just wanted to know if there is a way to recover the lost emails...by neya
- i too lost all my yahoo emails. sad.by moomoo11
- You don't have any old machine laying around or any old hard drive from when you might have read your Yahoo emails with a mail client?by carlosjobim
- Unfortunately not.by neya
- Dropbox did this to me with my actual data. I misunderstood it as a service where I could upload some data, uninstall the client, and expect the data to be there as long as the company still exists.by gdulli
- I hate how normalized this has become. Apparently Google has also taken the same route with Gmail.by neya
- > Is there any way to recover my old emails?
Ask Yahoo. I'm guessing no, since it says "we also deleted all of your emails".
by KomoD - I read my Yahoo account with Thunderbird, which stores messages on my hard drive.by orionblastar
- I wish I did this. Too late..by neya
- My Yahoo Mail had all my emails from when I was in college on it (back when people used to chat with each other via email, also AIM). I still used it sometimes for collecting junk mail and as a backup address for my gmail, or to reread a few of old college emails once in a blue moon, but otherwise rarely logged in. Apparently it had been a year because I got that same message as you did. What a shock.
Never been an issue until then (I must have gone over a year without logging in at some point before then and still was able to log in), and then suddenly 'screw you, a chunk of your past is gone with no way to recover it'.
I was so upset when I realized what happened. I'm still annoyed by it. I know I should have exported it all away a long time ago so it's on me, but I didn't think to do so, I had gotten so used to it always being there.
A year of inactivity before total deletion is way too short for email, imo.
by cableshaft - I totally agree with you. I wish they had tried to send me reminders to download my emails atleast. Sad.by neya