Hi.
I use an old-ish Dell laptop, Firefox, Win.10 and Yahoo/AT&T email.
I would like to save emails as LibreOffice docs. I use the 24.8 LibreOffice Writer setting.
Thank you for your help!
not really a LO problem.
you should start with :
For some reason the link to the Yahoo Account Sec. Page takes me to my AT&T page, which has nothing to do with my Yahoo email.
How do you access your emails? With a messenger (like Thunderbird, Outlook, …)? With your web browser (e.g. Firefox, Safari, Edge, …)?
The “common” save format for emails is .eml. This format is intended to be decoded by messenger programs, not by LO directly.
I do not own a cellphone, so the only way I do is by exactly as I posted above.
Dell laptop, Firefox, etc.
Thank you for your help!
The best Firefox can do is save an HTML page displaying your email either as an .html file or a simple .txt one. As far as I know, Yahoo (web)Mail has no internal provision to save in any other format.
I did a copy and paste, which looks absolutely awful…I’m sure it won’t be accepted.
Thank you for trying to help me.
~Bethoise
If you don’t use an email client, I suggest you try out Thunderbird ( www.thunderbird.net ). It is open source and has a big following. It can download from two different accounts and you get a local copy. Maybe you need to archive emails locally to free up space on your accounts.
Thank you for your helpful suggestion.
Will Thunderbird or IMAP allow me to access my email even when I am unable to log into it on the Yahoo site? This happens sometimes, and is frustrating and nerve-wracking as anything.
I use Thunderbird to connect to Yahoo Mail in IMAP (port 993) with OAuth2 authentication. It works fine. Of course, the mail server must be up and running. You must also configure the SMTP server for outbound mail on port 465 (and OAuth2 again). Yet of course, the SMTP server must be up and running for you to send emails.
I have never been unable to connect to Yahoo Mail, but to put odds on my side, I have a spare account with another provider, just in case. Something nice with Thunderbird is several accounts can be displayed simultaneously.
Thank you!
For some reason I am only able to log into my Yahoo/AT&T email via my Firefox private browsing, and not my reg. Firefox. I am immediately logged out when I use my FF non-private browsing browser. I won’t use google or anything else, because I want to stay with FF/Mozilla due to its open sourcing and ethics. I’m waiting for the Y/ATT email to lock me out of the private browsing, but hopefully not soon. It’s like living on a precipice.
This may be a problem of authentication or cookie acceptance.
To grant Thunderbird access, you need to configure a few parameters in your Yahoo account. This can be done only with a browser such as FF.
Query the web for TBird configuration if you can’t figure it out yourself (it’s quite easy once you have the port numbers).