Attachments in Yahoo Mail

Hi Laverne,

Thanks for trying...my settings are identical to yours including using the Full featured Version.
Maybe someone else has an idea?

Dana,

Thanks for coming to my rescue!

I save through folders in my Yahoo account on it's website.
Yes, I have opened emails that I know originally had an attachment and there are none there now.
My browser is Waterfox.

Sure hope you can help me out...this is most frustrating. I thought by saving the emails, I was saving the contents...guess I was wrong.

I am using Microsoft Security Essentials and as far as I can tell, Waterfox is basically Firefox.
I have no idea on how to make the changes you suggest.
Have tried to find somewhere where it says allow popup windows and run Java scripts, BUT I'm not finding it.

I try to remember to download and save the attachments I think I may need, but of course there are always those you think you will never have a need for and BINGO...you do. And I can't get to them. Very frustrating.

Hi Thai:

If I were to use a web-based email system for anything important, I would install and use an email client program such as Thunderbird on my computer to manage that (or those) email account(s). Rather than using a browser, I would use Thunderbird to connect to my email account, and download any email that I wish to use one way or another -- read, reply, forward, file, etc.

Then I would probably delete it from the on-line account. Although, if want to use with gmail's excellent system of archiving all your messages, once you have read and archived them, your current email message folder in
Thunderbird would be clean.

As an extra way of easily deleting all the stuff and fluff I simply want to read then discard, or simply dump, without any of it being downloaded to my computer when I fire up Thunderbird, I would use the terrific Mailwasher program from Firetrust. I have to pay for that program, but it is worth it. There are similar products, I expect, but I have used Mailwasher for years, and am happy to support the Firetrust people.
www.firetrust.com/

Be sure to go to this site, and not any of the download sites or ones pretending to be Firetrust. (See DrMark's posting : neatnettricks.freeforums.net/thread/596/freeware-download-site-serving-crapware )

Using the dynamic duo of Mailwasher and Thunderbird, you would have all your messages, and any attachments on your own computer. You could then manage and control it all any way you wish. You could save your attachments in folders of your choice. Your backup program would make sure that you don't lose them when when the drive or computer goes down.

I don't know about yahoo, but you certainly can do all this with gmail. This article from Ask Leo explains how you set it up: ask-leo.com/how_do_i_backup_my_gmail.html. It is likely that you can do the same thing with Yahoo. I know that Mailwasher can monitor gmail accounts, so if you can set up Thunderbird for yahoo, you can do the same with Mailwasher.

Then you completely avoid all the hassling you have been discussing above. You organize it all as you wish, you can back it up, and you have complete control of it all. Even if your on-line account gets hacked, you do not lose anything important.

My 2 cents worth....