I agree with mistylady, use either Outlook express, or better, MS Outlook. The only info you'll need is the incoming and outgoing mail server hostnames (usually in the format mail.yahoo.com etc) or even their ip addresses. You'll also have to throw in your username:password for Outlook to pass on to the server. You have have mail from many many many many accounts all downloaded for you to read centrally in outlook, you can keep it for as long as you like (no mailbox full limit messages), back it up as often as you like and so on. Go for it and good luck