Backing up...transferring blocked domains in Yahoo mail ?

[steve_83]

I just switched ISP's from a dsl account that used Yahoo's email.

I switched almost exclusively to web based email about 2) years ago.

My question Please, and it is time sensitive in that my former ISP (that billed be 30 months out of 120 over 10 years at the dsl elite speeds and was actually giving me the slowest available) is going to close this account soon.

Transferring the address book was simple enough.
After 2 days on my new 20 mbps fiber connection, my email is LOADED with spam.

I have tried to copy and paste the blocked domains (all 500 are used) and filters.

It can't be done....as far as I know.

Does anyone know of a program or an option in Yahoo email that I can do that with, Please?

I stumbled across some comcast $20 deal called tru switch that appeared it might be an option.

Any advice much appreciated, as always fellow members.

Steve_83

[steve_83]

Yes.

I have searched all over yahoo with:
transfer accounts
transfer domains before I posted this.

It's virtually impossible to contact yahoo, which is understandable.

Yahoo and google searches I get: spit, or things like this.

So, does anyone here know of any way to transfer my current steveXYZ@**&*phonecompany.net to a plain yahoo, ymail (posers) or rocketmail account, and Puhlease?

I have begged from **&*phonecompany enough to keep this open long enough to transfer my stuff.

The problematic areas are:
I can't find a way to copy my blocked domains and filters.
In 2) days without those....I am at 65+ spam emails.

I found out thru only a couple of days use that my new fiber connection only has some java based, text only web-based email.


If I get a single reply that works...I'll be one happy camper again.

Steve_83

[jdc2000]

Steve,

This probably not what you want to hear, but the likely answer is that there is no easy or automated way to transfer the data you want to save. This is why I do not use web based e-mail services. There is no customer service help, and you are trusing someone else to store your personal data.

Also, blocking entire domains is not really the way to stop spam. Usually what happens is that you only end up blocking legitimate e-mail, while the spammers switch domains like you and I change socks.

My preference is for a good LOCAL ISP/E-mail provider with web mail access capability. If you really need to access your e-mail from anywhere any time, you may want to consider setting up your own domain and e-mail server. If you do that, using Exchange Server and Exclaimer, and Outlook, you can stop almost all spam without stopping legitimate e-mail.

Just my opinion, based on years of experience.

[steve_83]

Yep.
I'm finding that out, and , after the fact.

I guess I'll set up Outlook 07 again and use my HD space instead of theirs from now on & just get in the habit of backing up more frequently.

If it's no bother to the moderators, I won't close this as Resolved until I see if anyone else posts, and no offense to you jdc.

The ideal scenerio would be to transfer my @OneBIGA**phonecompany which uses yahoo as their email server and transfer that to another yahoo or gmail account.

Honestly though, my filters and blocked domains have worked fairly well.

I'm accustomed to getting 2-3 per week, and since my last post I'm up from 65 to over 100 junk emails.
FiberWest.net's text only email is an aberration......seriously.

It's like I've stepped back to Windows 3.1, and you can't even stay logged in.
You have to re-enter the address and password every single visit.

Thanks again & I am still wishing we could talk across a coffee table guy, or share an adult beverage.

I Love Idaho Falls!

Where I live.....the river that flows thru one of the most attractive and posh parts of town is called (seriously) Flush Creek.

Small wonder they stated water on the Moon was more precious than Gold.
These people can help and the only charitable organization I give as much as I can to:
http://www.americanrivers.org/

Steve_83

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[fink]

Here's an idea..

Open the page that contains the blocked domains. Right click the page and select "view source"

You'll get notepad opening showing the page html. In it, amongst a lot more coding, will be a list of all the blocked domains. It will look like this.. (you can copy/paste the parts you want to keep into another instance of notepad)




Now you can at least see all the info on one page at one time... if you really want to get to it then you can use the "find/replace" tool to delete the part of the data you don't need and perhaps with some work create a plain text file of all the domains which would be easier to work with and maybe(?) be importable into an email program (not sure about that offhand)

To use "replace" select a word you don't want like <option and replace it with nothing (blank).

[steve_83]

dangGIT!



Yahoo must have the right click disabled on that page because if that worked, I could copy em with a keyboard command & simply paste em into the new account I created today.

I called what I thought was the solution today....TrueSwitch, and the fellow I talked to didn't know that yahoo had the ability to block domains.

He wasn't aware of yahoo's filters either.
Terminally.......pathetic, IMO.



That was a GREAT Idea Fink, but it looks like I'm in for either manually keyboarding 500 items + my filters, tolerating 100's of spam messages for awhile, or just joining those lemmings.
Cute lil suicidal things.

If no one minds....I'll keep this Un-Resolved over the weekend and close it next week.



Steve_83

[jdc2000]

You can also access the "View Source" without right clicking. Click View on the IE menus, then Source.

[steve_83]

That worked .....MUCH better than doing it one entry at a time !!



Ecstatic & God Bless you fellows and I'm 100% serious.

Now a little use of the backspace key, and I have a saved list is a word doc: but I have to enter that................. 1 at a time.

Oh Well?

Thanks gentlemen!

Steve_83

[SpywareDr]

If the file you have looks anything like the "BlockSender[1].txt" example above, and it contains hundreds of email addresses, here's how I'd strip it down to nothing but the email addresses:

1. Load "BlockSender[1].txt" file into Metapad (free Notepad replacement).
   
   
2. Press [Ctrl-H] to load the Replace window.
   
   
3. In the "Find what:" box, type in a:
   "
   (A single double-quote character).
   
   
4. In the "Replace with:" box, type in:
   \n
   (means 'newline').
   
   
5. Click the "Replace All" button, then "OK", then "Close".
   
   
6. Save the file as "C:\BlockSender[2].txt".
   
   
7. Get to a CMD prompt, type in:
   sort c:\blocksender[2].txt|find /v "<">c:\BlockSender[3].txt
   (and press [Enter]).
   
   
8. Back in Metapad, open "c:\BlockSender[3].txt".

You should now be looking at a sorted list of nothing but all of the email addresses that were in the original "BlockSender[1].txt" file. (In other words, all of the HTML stuff is gone).

[steve_83]

Once I had the list of blocked domains pasted into a word docx such as:
train's.exgirlfriends.edu it does contain a lot of programming code I don't need.

Even if I have to do these manually.

I'll give that a whirl.

I figured there might be a way with formulas in excel, but I have been known to complicate why rice krispies p0p.

Thanks again everyone.

Steve_83

(and, the notification of replies is hitting the new box fine, whereas the older one I had to relay thru a forward in a gmail acct.)

[fink]

Nice work Doc!

[SpywareDr]

Nice work Doc!

Thanks fink!

[steve_83]

Thanks for all the help fellow Dr's.



IMO:
this oughta stay archived unless someone can come up with some way to paste those into yahoo's blocked domain lists in batches.batches.batches.batches

Steve_83.....spoiled by this place