FetchYahoo
New Alpha version 2.12.0 alpha 13 of fetchyahoo
Yahoo has recently updated their Classic Mail interface and the old 2.11
versions of fetchyahoo cannot
download from updated accounts.
The latest 2.12 alpha versions of fetchyahoo will download from the
new Yahoo accounts but may not be very stable yet - it works for me but take
care when using it and report any bugs to me.
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.
Current Old Stable Version: 2.11.4 - (06/02/08)
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Related Links - 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.
- Mechanoid is a programmatic
Python browser, which includes a script to send Yahoo Mail.
- 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 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.
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