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removed pop account in order to fix password problems and lost all emails sent and received

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I had a yahoo pop password problem and I was told to remove the account and add it back. In doing so I have lost all my old emails that were on the computer and not i have is a blank account (POP Server account) Is there anyway to recover the old information from the computer

I had a yahoo pop password problem and I was told to remove the account and add it back. In doing so I have lost all my old emails that were on the computer and not i have is a blank account (POP Server account) Is there anyway to recover the old information from the computer

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you might try logging on to web account to see if messages are there. If not, the messages are probably lost.

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The old mail is probably still in a subfolder of the Mail folder in the profile, named pop.mail.yahoo.com, while the newly added account's mail is in a subfolder of Mail named pop.mail.yahoo-1.com. You can make TB read the mail in the old folder by browsing to that location in Account Settings.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Recovering_deleted_mail_accounts