How restore Outlook messages back to Yahoo Server, removed in err

[angela g]

The related question to this msg is:
Why, when you are setting up an account in Outlook '07 on Windows 7, not
only is the DEFAULT setting to NOT leave a copy of messages on the server,
you AREN'T EVEN ASKED WHETHER YOU WANT MESSAGES LEFT ON THE SERVER OR NOT?
If I'd been asked I would have known how to answer, but I wasn't.

That question is buried in the Advanced tab under More Settings that you do
not automatically go to when setting up a new account. I didn't even seen
the More Settings button. It may not have even been displayed.

Everything setting up my new laptop was fine till now.

Since I wasn't ASKED if I wanted messages left on the Server, how do I get
them back into my Yahoo in box on the Yahoo web site where they will once
again be accessible to me from anywhere with an Internet connection??? Where
they were 2 hours ago?

I'm asking Microsoft rather than Yahoo first, since Yahoo has the incredibly
lousy setup defaults where you're not even asked what you want to do, leading
to this problem.

I know I'm not the first to run into this.

Outlook 2007, brand new Windows 7 Asus laptop.

Thanks in advance.

How do I get those month

 

[DL]

The default for a pop account is to download all mail.
If you want them back on web mail you will have to forward them to yourself

 

[angela g]

Uh, thanks, DL. Maybe I should have mentioned that I'm aware I can send
emails back to myself, but then of course they'd all be from me and the send
date would be wrong, so could be problematic when trying to find a msg.
Hardly ideal

As I tried to say in my first msg., it's one thing to have something be
default. It's something else to not even be asked what one prefers when
setting something up -- where the choice is buried in setup. Especially
when/if the wrong decision is difficult or impossible to fix.

I think that default removal of messages from servers was set back in the
day when everyone accessed email from one single desktop device and disk
storage was relatively expensive. That day went away long before Outlook '07
was released.