yahoo e-mail download

Sure there is. Outlook Express comes with windows versions and although very unsafe (It opens all incoming emails before you can virus scan ) Opera Mail and Internet browser is much safer than both internet explorer and Outlook Express. Netscape can import mail from yahoo. If your working with Linux instead of Microsoft windows there is Kmail,
Konqueror, Mozilla, Opera, Netscape and many others.

Emailchemy can convert emails from a number of formats into text files which will be placed onto your machine.

Be aware that Yahoo allows inporting emails to other apps but does not support sending emails
by third party software. This is not aproblem since Opera, and netscape both come with their own mail systems for sending emails, and you can always log into Yahoo and send that way too.

Hope this helps
Rick

Yahoo requires that you subscribe to one of it's premium services (as does NetZero as of 6/1/04) in order to directly download your mail into a mail client such as OE.

When you subscribe to a premium service, Yahoo will provide instructions on how to setup your mail software to connect to Yahoo's mail server.

I have seen software posted on some of the "tweaking" sites that allows download of mail without the premium service.

Like any software that violates EULA's, when Yahoo finds this stuff posted, they have their lawyers contact the web site host and get the software removed.

If you use this kind of software, you are likely to get your Yahoo account suspended.

As far as "free" web based mail hosts that allow you to retrieve your mail onto your PC, I know of 2.

Hotmail will allow you to set up either Outlook or Outlook Express to connect to it's server.

Netscape will allow you to connect to it's server IF you run the Netscape mail client.

Chas