Backing up email folders

How do I back up all my BT Yahoo email folders, and their contents, either to my computer or to external storage plugged into Drive E? How do I find out how much storage I need for each folder before I start?
Thanks
As simply as possibe so I can understand step-by-step.

Are you already using a local email client (such as Thunderbird, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Opera)?
If so they will already have a local directory containing everything, which you can look in to see how large it is.
But from what you say, it sounds as if you are doing all your mail using the web mail client in your browser?
If not, I think the only way is to set up such a client. That would be best done using IMAP, which will just replicate all your Yahoo email data onto local storage, and should keep the folder structure. It isn't very hard to set up but not easy to give step-by-step instructions. I'm sure there are some around on the internet somewhere but can't see them (can someone else help here?). If you don't get a more direct response after a bit I'll try.....
I don't know the BT Yahoo mail well enough to know if there is an easy way to find out the approximate storage you willl need. Mine with my wife's is nearly 3Gb total, but that includes mail going back more than 10 years, with lots of messages containing photos and other large attachments. Most people's email would probably take up much less space, but ...???

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