How do I close my account and keep my folders and inbox messages?

I want to close my old account but keep the inbox messages and folders.|||the other answer is a good one...However, it did not tell you how to transfer the information...see below...do this prior to deleting the old account.


I will add at the end how you delete the old account.


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Here’s how:





1. Click the Contacts tab in the upper-left part of the page.


2. In the upper-right corner of the page that opens, click Options.


3. Under "Management," click Transfer Contacts to Yahoo!.


4. Please re-enter your password. We want to make sure it’s you!


5. And now, a permissions page. Legal stuff! Read at your leisure, and when you feel ready, click I Agree. Or of course, if you’d rather not continue, just click I Do Not Agree.


6. One more hurdle: please verify that you’ve read the Terms of Service. How? By clicking in the check-box. OK! Click Start Transfer.


7. Enter the “old” email sign-in name for the account you’re transferring from, and in the pull-down menu, select the webmail domain it’s from.


* Choose from:


Hotmail, AOL, Gmail, Comcast, Yahoo!, Cox, Earthlink, MSN, Netscape, Netzero, Juno, CS, Optonline, and Worldnet.att.net


8. Enter the email account’s password. Click Next.


9. Please wait a moment while we verify this information. Thanks! If we run into a problem, we’ll ask that you please re-enter the username, provider and password info.


10. Now, leave a check in the check-boxes beside the information you’d like to transfer to your Yahoo! account. You can transfer Email, Address Book info, and usually, your Calendar info. But some webmail programs don’t feature calendars.


* Would you like to send a note to all these contacts announcing your new email address? No problem! Leave a check in the box beside “Send a note…” And if you want to write the note yourself, just click “Click here to personalize...”, and click Next when you’re done.


* Click Next to transfer the information to your new Yahoo! account.


* Done! Nice work. The “Finished” page confirms the transfer and offers you a quick route back to your Yahoo! Mail account: Take Me To Yahoo! Mail.





Please note that it may take as long as 24 hours to complete the transfer. And when it’s done, you’ll get a confirmation email in your Yahoo! Inbox.





If you have another webmail account whose info you’d like to transfer, no problem! Import from as many of the supported providers as you want.





For desktop email


Interested in transferring Address Book information from your desktop application





AND if this is more appropriate...try below...





Copy/export addresses





Log into your Yahoo account.


Click the Addresses tab (this tab then becomes the "Contacts" tab).


Click the Import/Export link in the top-right corner of the page.


Scroll down to the Export section.


Click the Export Now button next to Microsoft Outlook.


Either open the file (in Excel), and then proceed to save the file as a CSV or


Save the file straightaway as a CSV (note the location).





Exporting addresses from your Yahoo addressbook: http://help.yahoo.com/us/tutorials/ab/ab…





Converting address book into .csv file for Mac users: http://aurelio.net/soft/export-contacts-…





Importing addresses from a .csv file:


http://help.yahoo.com/tutorials/ab/ab/ab…





....Have a great day...................





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To delete your yahoo account click this link. https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_use…


Your yahoo account comes as a package and you can only delete the whole package that includes the following:





* Yahoo answers. (Your questions and answers will remain).


* Flickr.


* Yahoo Mail.


* Yahoo notepad.


* My Yahoo.


* Any other yahoo program that needs your Yahoo ID and password.





Once a yahoo account is deleted you will have 90 days to reactivate it by calling 866-562-7219.(6a-6p PST) Make sure you get a LIVE operator by punching the right number. All your present information in the deleted account will be held IN that account for that 90 day period...Once 90 days goes by you OR anyone else will not be able to use that ID again...Period...





If you have more than one yahoo accounts check that only the account you want to delete is signed in.





This is an alternative. Leave the account dormant for 4 months and yahoo will automatically delete the account See link.


http://help.yahoo.com/l/uk/yahoo/mail/or…





i recommend you leave it open for these four months...I have seen many times where someone wants to get back in to his/her account for whatever reason...Leaving it open provides you with this oppurtunity. Let yahoo cancel it





G O D bless the U S A





NOTE: Please remember to pick the best answer by clicking on the THUMBS UP at the end of the answer you choose...thanx|||I assume you're going to make another email account----so make the new account first----and then transfer (forward) whatever you want to keep from the old account to the new account-----because, when you close or delete the old one---everything on it will be lost.





That goes for the contact list, too.