It's a traaaaaap!
I got the connection to T'bird working, thanks Waleee! However that is when the games began. Not all of my old emails migrated over. All of 2023 was missing, and much of 2024. I assumed that my bad habits of keeping old mail around had swamped the little server that the yahoos seem to be using, so I started sorting and deleting old mails. Part way through the process I realized that they were regenerating! Move them to the trash, empty the trash, and they just download again. ok, so I started bulk archiving to local folders rubbish files and all. Same thing, the emails would just reload, sometimes, but not always. Also if I tried to move more than 100 files at a time the whole mess would freeze up and fall over. Sometimes if I moved a month at a time, the files would copy out, then reload into the inbox, then slowly delete frome the inbox one at a time, at a 1 to 2 second interval. Cripes what a circus. I had to go the the yahoos online browser and delete a bunch of mail there to keep it from reloading.
So, I decided to archive one of my other accounts before I switched over to the yahoos. Cox has cut the cord, and no access to the vacuum tube server yet, so I should be able to clean things up, delete the account, and create a new account. What could go wrong? Same thing happened! I dip out 6 months of mail, and it flows right back in. What...where...fkt...I am giving up and going to bed. Tomorrow I will patent this mess as a perpetual motion machine.
