FetchYahoo

Current Version: 2.8.6 - (09/19/04 - Changelog)

Older Versions: 2.8.5, 2.8.4, 2.8.3, 2.8.2, 2.8.1, 2.8.0, 2.7.9, 2.7.7, 2.7.6, 2.7.5, 2.7.2, 2.7.0, 2.6.2, 2.6.1, 2.6.0, 2.5.5, 2.4, 2.3, 2.2, 2.1, 2.0, 1.9, 1.8, 1.7, 1.6, 1.5, 1.4, 1.3, 1.2, 1.1, 1.0, 0.9, 0.8, 0.7, 0.6, 0.5

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Note on new Yahoo Interface

If you are having trouble using FetchYahoo, try logging into your Yahoo! mail manually using a web browser and click the button to clear the splash screen. FetchYahoo should continue to work as normal after clearing the splash screen.

Description

FetchYahoo is a Perl script that downloads mail from a Yahoo! account to a local mail spool. It is meant to replace fetchmail for people using Yahoo! mail since Yahoo!'s POP service no longer free. It downloads messages to a local mail spool, including all parts and attachments. It then deletes messages unless requested not to. It can also optionally forward messages to a specified e-mail address and repeat with a given interval.

Requirements & Usage

To-Do/Bugs

Other Versions/programs - untested and unsupported

YahooPOPs! is a Windows based utility which does something similar to FetchYahoo program. The application works as a POP3 emulator to download emails from Yahoo and make it available via POP. A *nix port is in progress. I have heard good things about this program !
Hotmail users can try gotmail which does the same thing as FetchYahoo for Hotmail webmail.
SendYmail is a perl script to send mail via the Yahoo server. It is designed to be a dropin replacement for sendmail.
MrPostman is a free software initiative which uses java to download mail from several webmail providers (Yahoo, Hotmail, Mail.com and Another) and makes it available using a POP server.
Yahoo Mail Sucker (YoSucker) is a Perl script that does almost the same thing as FetchYahoo (and in almost the same way). The feature-set, usage and style of coding are slightly different.
Windows users can also try out web2pop which does the same thing as MrPostman above but natively for Windows. Unfortunately the program costs $20 US.
This webpage uses FetchYahoo to forward your Yahoo! mail to any e-mail address you specify. Although this is pretty cool, it does require that you enter your Yahoo! username and password, so I cannot recommend that you use this (even if you change your password immediately afterwards, there is still a risk).
This version sets up a POP server on the computer so that it can be used with any mail client supporting POP fetching (most windows clients). I am still not sure whether I want to do this in the main version and if I do, in what form. Credit to Murtaza Nooruddin for this. This is from a very early version of FetchYahoo and is very broken.
This version contains https support and a few extra options for entering the username/password. I have already integrated the https patch (as of v.1.1) and am going to work on integrating the others very soon. Credit to Thanh Nguyen for this patched version. Also given here is a useful shell script which can process multiple username/password pairs, stored in an encrypted file. This functionality will almost certainly not be integrated into FetchYahoo.