downloading web based email

[pehr anderson]

Yahoo *definitely* supports reading from their webmail accounts
though the universal standard of pop3.  Fetchmail will get this,
or you could simply point your netscape mail client at the yahoo server.
To enable this feature under yahoo, you have to click an option which
allows them to send you adds. Adds pay for their service so if you don't
go to their web page they have to be able to still get your attention.

I'm really impressed with how yahoo treats their clients.
Yahoo mail lets you specify the return address so you aren't
"locked in" to a yahoo account name, you can have mail forwarded from
a more permanent mail address and set your reply address to the permanent one!

    ---pehr


Skip Montanaro wrote:

>     Preston> I'm thinking of writing a Python program to download email from
>     Preston> web-based services such as Yahoo mail, Deja, Hotmail, and so
>     Preston> on, and deliever the mail in a format that standard unix
>     Preston> mailers can use.
>
>     Preston> I'm posting here to make sure that this work has not already
>     Preston> been done.  If someone has already seen a program like this,
>     Preston> that can be adapted for a variety of web based email services,
>     Preston> please let me know.  I'm not writing this as a learning
>     Preston> exercise, I just need the tool. ;-)
>
> Presuming the services you're interested in support a standard mail transfer
> protocol like POP or IMAP, you need look no further than Eric Raymond's
> excellent fetchmail program:
>
>     http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/
>
> If not, perhaps you can train fetchmail to use whatever transport they do
> offer.
>
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