Yahoo Email Transition - Links & Resources
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We've pulled together a list of the most helpful threads you've posted related to the Cox.net email move to Yahoo. Thanks to our community members for sharing your tips and tricks!
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Thank you for this.
There is another issue that Outlook users may face. . Yahoo limits the number of items in an Outlook folder to 10,000. Beyond 10,000 they will not download/synch any remaining items. As an example, before I transitioned to Yahoo I had over 28,000 items in my Outlook inbox folder for my COX email account. After transitioning and synching with Yahoo, that same folder only had 10,000 items. Logging on to Yahoo directly I verified that all of those emails where still there, but it would only put 10,000 into my Outlook inbox folder. To resolve this problem, I had to create multiple new folders within Outlook for my COX email account and drag thousands of emails from my inbox over into those folders taking care to not exceed 10,000 for any one folder. This required multiple rounds of moving emails, forcing a synch with Yahoo to get more emails into my inbox (which was really slow), and then rinse and repeat until my fully synched inbox was less than 10,000. This was a royal pain in the rear and took quite some time to accomplish. After doing some research I found that Yahoo has known about, and often denied, this issue for years. Yahoo is not exactly what I would call a top tier provider.
Have you considered cleaning out stuff you don't need.
Beyond quota issues, you're already having severe performance impact. You've also built a high-risk trove of information to plunder if anyone gains unauthorized access.
Yes, I have cleaned those files, but I have 20 years worth of email that I want to retain. The performance issue was never a problem before the transition, but that changed when using Yahoo. Synching with Yahoo has been much slower. To avoid that problem my non-inbox folders are treated as data and I do not synch them with Yahoo after the initial population. As far as the security issue goes you always need to assume that if you get hacked you are pretty well screwed. So firewalls, VPNs, appropriate antivirus/malware software, password management, and good security awareness procedures are a must. Most people don't realize just how much personal data can be gleaned from the average PC. So am I invulnerable? Of course not. My really sensitive files are on an external drive that gets disconnected after each use. CISM here.
Have you considered sitting down with a trusted relative or friend and having them help you sort out what's really important from 20 years' worth of emails? I know it can be difficult to part with precious information but sometimes we need another perspective on the actual value of these pixels and electrons, vs. their liability.
We should also consider offline archiving, instead of making Yahoo!s servers hold it all in perpetuity. Put it on a Bitlockered thumb drive, burn it to a CD-ROM, throw it in a drawer. Cost of electricity and maintenance: $0.
Hackers cannot work miracles, and our job is to reduce our risk profiles. Consider an automobile full of your stuff. Parked in front of your house it's safe. Park it downtown and it's a different story. Place your valuables in the trunk, out of sight, or leave a stack of $20s on the front seat? Have a loaded firearm under your pillow, or take out the ammo and store rifle in a safe? Your tax and insurance documents are in ten cardboard boxes in the kitchen/basement, or in a fireproof file cabinet with a key lock on it?
