On 2019/02/12 04:23 PM, Bob wrote:
We are faced with abandoning message histories on Yahoo dating back
a number of years, or looking for a solution other than Groups.io.
Two years ago I tried various ways to download mails from YahooGroups and eventually figured out how to do it. I'm not a programmer, so you may find my method klunky. I just checked, and my method still works (or seems to work). You can download it here:
(download%20yahoogroup%20mails).zip
It consists of two AutoIt scripts and some instructions. You also need some way to grab a cookie (I use Firefox with an add-on) and some way to merge EML files into an MBOX file (I use Thunderbird with an add-on).
Ideally, I should update the scripts to fix more HTML entities, but I haven't gotten round to doing that, sorry. One can tinker with scripts forever.
You'll end up with a file that Thunderbird considers an MBOX file, but I'm no expert.
Samuel
Samuel Murray