yahoopops

[kmack]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/yahoopops/

 

YahooPOPs! is an application which emulates a POP3/SMTP mail server and provides free POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo! Mail. It does not depend on Yahoo's POP3/SMTP mail server. You can use a mail client of your choice!

 

If you are like me, you hate to check that webmail account and if you put it off too long it is cancelled for lack of use.

 

Interesting piece of software.... anyone tried it yet?

[mtweidmann]

Sounds cool, but if you use yahoo.co.uk you get free pop3/smtp mail access anyway.

[kmack]

Cooler yet! But looks like you have to subscribe to the ads to get POP3 free and it doesn't look like it includes SMTP either! Otherwise, the yahoo premium service allows pop and smtp usage without ads.

 

http://help.yahoo.com/help/uk/mail/pop/pop-02.html

 

From reading some of the bug reports on YahooPops! site, looks interesting too! :roll:

 

Guess I'll just set Kalarm to remind me to check in now and then.

[mtweidmann]

Yes you do have to subscribe to the adverts, but as long as you don't select many topics of "interest" you get few emails. And there it does support smtp (at least it works for me). I did think about getting the premium service, but for me I don't think its worth it.

[iphitus]

I subscribed. I have never got an ad.

 

i have one @yahoo.com.au

(ok two: iphitus@... and rcxau@...)

 

James

[kmack]

Nice to get that input. I didn't want to get deluged with ads! I get enough from a couple yahoo groups I joined. :)

[Guest Joe Noob]

Yahoopops works great , Ive got it going in Mozilla and it runs in the background but you might have to tweak your firewall

[Steve Scrimpshire]

WOW. Thanks! I was just going to come to this board and ask if anyone knew of a tool to download all my Yahoo mail conveniently because my mailbox was getting full and I had already deleted everything I could bear to delete. Thanks again.

 

It works well in WinXP with Outlook Express. I'm not in Linux right now and won't be until I get the parts for my new computer.

[Steve Scrimpshire]

Can anyone give me step by step instructions on what to uncomment in the files the readme says to uncomment. The Windows version was simple to install but the Linux version talks about editing config files which I've tried but get errors.

[kmack]

Steve,

Sorry, I got sidetracked and haven't tried yahoopops yet. Hope Joe Noob can provide some info...

 

Seems like there is another tool or two that can do this. I also found one for Hotmail and Kmail using a perl script. Might be able to do same thing for yahoo mail but I'm no programmer so not much help on that.

http://en.vosberg.be/doc/kde/kmail_gotmail.shtml

 

If I get a chance later I'll try to get yahoopops going and let you know.

 

Edit: two more options:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywebmail/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/webmailsucker/

[Steve Scrimpshire]

There's also fetchyahoo.

# urpmi fetchyahoo

 

Here is a template for ~/.fetchyahoorc (In case the rpm doesn't create it for you):

# FetchYahoo configuration file



# values in this file override values specified in the script itself

# but are in turn overridden by values specified on the commandline

# lines starting with # are ignored

# do NOT use any quotes around values

# values can include whitespace, but not at the end.



###### SHOULD configure these  ######

username = yahoo-user-name

password = yahoo-password



# set this to 0 to turn off HTTPS and login insecurely via plaintext instead

use-https = 1



###### mail spool, mbox file and procmail configs ######



# set use-spool to 0 to disable outputting to a file/filter

use-spool = 1

spool = /var/spool/mail/local-user-name



# spool-mode must be either append, pipe or overwrite

# use pipe for procmail or other filter and append for a normal spool

spool-mode = append



###### proxy configs ######



# set use-proxy to 1 to enable use of a web proxy

use-proxy = 0

proxy-host = proxy.hostname.com

proxy-port = 80

proxy-username = proxyAuthenicationUserName

proxy-password = proxyAuthenicationPassword



###### mail forwarding configs ######



# set use-forward to 1 to enable mail forwarding

use-forward = 0



# set mail-host to your smtp outgoing mail server

mail-host = outgoing.mail.com



# the e-mail address you want mail forwarded to

send-to = me@myhost.com



# the e-mail address used as the from address, this should probably be at the same

# ISP as the outgoing smtp mailhost specified above

send-from = me@myhost.com





###### other configs ######

# set new-messages-only to 1 to download only unread messages

new-messages-only = 0



# set no-delete to 1 to not delete messages after dowloading

# i.e. they will be left on Yahoo!'s mail servers

no-delete = 0



# set this to the folder you want to download from eg Bulk

folder = Inbox



# set quiet to 1 to not output any regular (non-error) messages

quiet = 0



# set this to 1 to retrieve messages from external mailboxes too

get-external = 0



# set no-errors to 1 to not output any error messages

no-errors = 0



# set either of these to 1 to enable mail checking before or after downloading msgs

empty-trash-after = 0

empty-trash-before = 0



# set this to 1 to enable emptying the Bulk folder before fetching messages

empty-bulk = 0



# if this is 0, the program runs once and terminates

# Otherwise this is the number of minutes between successive mail checks.

repeat-interval = 0



# to leave messages as unread on the server, set this to 1

# this is only useful if no-delete is also set to 1

leave-unread = 0



# if you are using a program/filter which does not expect a From_ line

# at the start of the message, set this to 1

no-from-line = 0



# set logout to 1 to make fetchyahoo logout after downloading messages

logout = 0



# set status-only to 1 to only get the number of messages

status-only = 0

 

I found a link to the FetchYahoo page on the YahooPOPs site, actually, and discovered there was an RPM for 9.1 with urpmi.