Importing mailboxes & old messages from yahoo mail

Hi.
I have just figured out how to get mail to send/receive messages from my .yahoo mail account.
Now I have the problem that i have hundreds of messages sat in my yahoo account that i want to import into mail, but i really can't find a way to do it, other than sending them one by one..
Could you tell me if it's possible, and how i go about it?
Many thanks
David Tobin

Hi David.
Not sure what you mean. If Mail is downloading mail received on that account, it should have downloaded all the messages there, not just the new ones -- unless it’s organized in folders on the server, that is. POP mail clients can only see the messages that are in Inbox. Could that be the problem?

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http://www.apple.com/mobileme/
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Edited by: sagar_birari on 23 Apr, 2008 1:18 PM
Edited by: sagar_birari on 23 Apr, 2008 4:30 PM

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n.mail.pop3.POP3SSLStore,Sun Microsystems, Inc], com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPStore=jav
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