How to Archive Yahoo Mail to Hard Drive on Mac

Yahoo mail is a free email application by the American company Yahoo! It is a widely used service all across the world. This service provides four different plans for the users, three for personal and one is for business use. Although, email services play a major role in everyone’s life. But what will a user do if all the emails are deleted, or the account is prone to any malware or virus attacks? In that case, archive Yahoo mail to hard drive becomes a necessity for every user. 

However, in this post, we have discussed the possible reasons that urge the user to save Yahoo mail to computer. Therefore, the user should download Yahoo emails to the hard drive to prevent those emails from data loss. Before proceeding further, let’s be aware of some of the reasons to backup Yahoo Mail to the hard drive on Mac.

Some Common Facts of Yahoo Mail 

• “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle” is Yahoo.
• Almost 700 million people visit the Yahoo website per month.
• A most well-known email client in the United States of America.
• This email client offers 30 languages.
• It earns around 200 million US$ per second.
• As of February 2017, it has 225 million active users per month.
• Almost 700 million people visit the Yahoo website per month.

Why Need to Archive Yahoo Mail to Hard Drive?

To save Yahoo emails to a computer, there are many reasons to back up. Some of them are listed below. Read them carefully.

• Sometimes, you receive lots of emails that are important, but you can’t view them regularly. It may be removed for some reason. So you have to save this email.
• In case of account hacking, all your data will be lost. You will not be able to restore it to your account. However, if you backed up your email on your hard drive, you can access them at least on your local computer.
• Saving the backup of the Yahoo email folder to the local machine before entering the virus will prevent you from accessing your Yahoo account.
• Backing up data on your hard drive protects your data and provides access to users anytime, anywhere.

These are the reasons due to which users want to backup their Yahoo emails on the Mac system. In the below section, we have mentioned the best possible methods to backup Yahoo mail to the hard drive.

How to Archive Yahoo Mail to Hard Drive?

Users can archive their Yahoo mail to a hard drive on Mac using manual and professional methods. In the below section, we have listed both solutions.

Transfer Yahoo Mail to Hard Drive Manually

• Open the Apple Mail in your macOS system.
• Navigate the File tab and click on the Preferences option.

• Click on the Account tab in the Account wizard and Tap on the + Sign.

• Now, Choose the Email client which you want to convert and press the Continue button.

• Then, enter the Yahoo mail account and hit the Next button.

• After that, type your Password and again press the Next button.

• Tick to the Mail menu and tap on the Done button.
• Here your Yahoo mail account is configured with iCloud mails.

Quick & Secure Method to Backup Yahoo Emails

Yahoo Backup Tool for Mac is one of the secure and reliable software that backup Yahoo mail folders such as Inbox, Sent, Archive, Trash, Draft, etc., to the hard drive on your Mac Machine. It backup Yahoo mail into multiple file formats such as  PST, OST, MBOX, CSV, and many more. Also, it migrates Yahoo mail to Gmail, Office 365, iCloud, Live Exchange, and many more on macOS. Users can set their backup schedule by using this software. This utility also helps to convert Yahoo email to PDF in a single go on your macOS X. 

Conclusion

As we all know, Yahoo mail is prone to various virus and malware intrusions. In that case, creating a backup and archive yahoo mail to hard drive is a must. So, in the above post, we have described the manual approach to backup Yahoo mail. Also, we have described the professional way for taking a backup of the Yahoo email application. Users can test the software working by downloading the free trial version of the utility which is available.

Author Bio:

Manoj Shukla is Head of Technology at MacSonik Software. He has a keen interest in Technology & Entrepreneurship. Also, he loves cricket, music, and books.