How to Backup Yahoo Emails to External Hard Drive?

Are you worried about your emails in Yahoo Mail? If yes, then you are on the appropriate page. The best solution to backup your Yahoo emails is to save them on an external hard drive. In this blog, we have explained an automated solution on how to back up Yahoo emails to External Hard Drive.

Overview

Yahoo Mail is one of the cloud-based webmail services that is used by millions of users. Yahoo Mail provides 1 Tera byte storage space and provides all the services like emails, contacts, calendars, tasks, notes, etc. 

It also provides other services like the Yahoo search engine, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Mail, etc.

To ensure safety and protection from hacking users think of having a backup Yahoo emails to external Hard Drive. To solve this problem we have provided an automated method to backup Yahoo emails to external hard drive.

Smart Solution to Backup Yahoo Emails to External Hard Drive

The smart solution to backup Yahoo emails to External Hard Drive is to use eSoftTools Yahoo Backup Software. With the help of this software, you can back up Yahoo Mail account emails in PST, MSG, EML, HTML, MHTML, EMLX, MBOX, PDF, and Thunderbird. With a few clicks, you can backup emails from Yahoo Mail easily and without any data loss.

Read Also:- How to Download Gmail emails to external hard drive?

Key features

• Easily take a backup of cloud-based webmail applications like Yahoo Mail, Gmail/Google Workspace, Outlook.com, Office 365 and IMAP servers to the hard drive.
• Maintains folder hierarchy and data formatting while migration and backup.
• Save IMAP account emails and folders to MBOX format in two different options- Single MBOX and Separate MBOX folder.
• Backup IMAP account emails with complete meta properties, structuring and formatting.
• Provides mail filtering option by which users can filter emails according to Date Range(From and To)
• Allows you to have a backup at your desired location of your computer.
• Easily installs and runs on all editions of Windows Operating System like Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8, 7 and below editions.

Step by Step approach to backup Yahoo Mail emails to Hard drive

• Download and install eSoftTools Yahoo Backup software in your system.
• Choose Yahoo Mail from a drop-down list of IMAP Servers and enter your  Yahoo Mail account email address and password.

• Load all the files and folders of Yahoo Mail in the software and select the files and folders to have a backup on a hard drive.

• Click Get Backup to Local Drive and a new window will open.

• Choose the file format in which you want to have backup such as PST, EML, EMLX, MSG, HTML, MHTML, PDF, MBOX,& Thunderbird.

• Browse the location to save the Backup of Yahoo Mail on your hard drive.

• Select and apply other options like Mail filter by Date Range.

• Click the Backup Now button and download emails from Yahoo Mail to a local drive and easily create a backup. 

Conclusion

In this blog, we have explained an automated method that is easy and efficient. There are manual methods also available but they are complex and have chances of data loss. In the demo version, you can back up 25 emails from each folder of your Yahoo Mail account and try the software free of cost. If you want to use the software for unlimited backup and migration you can purchase the license.