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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

I just realised that I did not mention these three points:
1. Yahoogroups will munge e-mail addresses to e.g. yourname@..., so you won't be able to see the domains, even if you're the group owner.
2. The process breaks threading (and for some reason tells e.g. Thunderbird that some messages are part of a thread when they're not).
3. AFAIK attachments don't get included.