Originally Posted by
Alchad
Yahoo mail IS web based so emails are sited on the Yahoo servers.
Simple check, don't know how old your machine is but try scrolling down your sent folder, on mine I can find emails I sent 10 years ago which is the pc before my present one and I didn't do any email back up. Documents and photos etc obviously do need to be backed up.
Regards
Not quite sure why you are replying to my post? I was not the one asking the question, I was pointing out to the OP that if he was using a web browser to access his email then it was not stored on his local drive. Yahoo mail, along with many others can be accessed via their web interface but it can also be accessed via a dedicated email client such as Outlook. Depending on how you set up your account in the email client the mail may or may not be stored locally. If you use IMAP the messages are left on the server, if you use POP they are downloaded to the local drive.