Does Yahoo retain any e-mail after I delete it from my account. Is Yahoo mail recorded to the computer hard dr

Answer 1

Yahoo email is not recorded on your computer. It is, however, retained on the Yahoo server. But there is no way anyone from your computer could recover the email. But the authorities with a warrant could retreive it from the Yahoo server.

Answer 2

No. As far as your email account is concerned (even if it is a premium or paid account) once you delete your email it is never retained by Yahoo Servers. However, immediately if after deleting you go back and retreieve the message you can copy paste it to your pc/briefcase or folder.But never get it back intact.

Answer 3

If you're using an email client to retrieve your emails from their server, only then you will have a copy of those emails on your comp. Also when you delete your emails from your yahoo email inbox they are transferred to the Trash for another 24 hours before they are deleted indefinitely.

Yahoo Mail Server Information
Incoming mail server (POP3):
pop.mail.yahoo.com
Outgoing mail server (SMTP):
smtp.mail.yahoo.com

Answer 4

Sorry but "yes." Yahoo! use "web beacons" which track your e-mails and your activities on the Internet. Please read About.com's article "Yahoo web beacons" (http://antivirus.about.com/od/spywareandadware/a/yahoobugs.htm)


"Yahoo's current privacy policy is causing consternation among some users who object to their use of so-called 'web beacons'. Known in most circles as web bugs, these invisible images are embedded in websites and email and used to track your surfing - and even tell whether you've opened a particular email. According to Yahoo's current privacy policy, "Yahoo!'s practice is to include web beacons in HTML-formatted email messages that Yahoo!, or its agents, sends in order to determine which email messages were opened and to note whether a message was acted upon." (For more on the hazards of HTML email and the practice of using web bugs, see: Why Plain is Better)" -- excerpt from article