Comment by rococode | Hacker News Reader

Comment by rococode | Hacker News Reader

Yahoo Mail does the same with only a 1 year threshold and regardless of how much data you use. Don't log in for 12 months = lose everything. Sadly found this out the hard way - most of my childhood email accounts were wiped :'(

Now they're also disabling email forwarding for free users which I've been relying on for a decade to catch occasionally relevant emails. Might really be forced to shell out the $3.49 a month for their paid option...

I guess this is kind of inevitable with the scale of storage these kinds of companies work with. Probably someday Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. will have similar plans as the older data they store starts losing its value.

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/11/05/yahoo-mail-drops-email-for...

If you are using gmail, you probably could use "Check email from other accounts:" under "Settings / Accounts and Import". It fetches new mails periodically using POP3 or IMAP.

If you host your own mail server, you could use https://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-man.html instead.

Thanks for the tip! Will definitely look into how that works.

I just yesterday set up fetchmail[1] to fetch e-mail from yahoo over POP and deposit them in a self-hosted mailbox (for my partner's longstanding Yahoo e-mail address). It may be worth a look; it can fetch from IMAP or POP and spit them out to LMTP or SMTP. (N.B. it didn't work with IMAP on Yahoo for me, but using POP was no problem).

edit: Perhaps my /etc/fetchmailrc file can be a useful starting point for someone[2].

[1]: https://www.fetchmail.info/

[2]: https://hastebin.com/raw/ororunutev

I've had Yahoo Mail since 1995. A year or two ago I noticed all my emails before 2001 were no longer there. Such a great service! /s

I still use that e-mail for online shops, etc. (a bad idea, because I also use it for Facebook, so all the online services that uploaded their customer data onto Facebook has my details courtesy of Zuck). Nowadays Yahoo's web interface keep moaning that I should turn off my ad blocker, and as my little "Fuck you, Yahoo" I keep clicking "No"..

Reply on news.ycombinator.com