Re: [fetchyahoo-announce] Fetchyahoo officially deprecated

[Joe U. <ber...@ar...>]

On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 10:18:32 -0700
Ravi R <rav...@ya...> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> The original intention of fetchyahoo was to replace fetchmail for
> Yahoo! Mail since the free Yahoo! Mail supported neither POP nor IMAP.
> 
> But Yahoo! Mail now supports IMAP so using fetchmail or standard mail 
> clients is now possible and fetchyahoo is no longer necessary.
> 
> I am officially deprecating fetchyahoo since it is no longer needed. 
> Users should migrate to fetchmail or use a mail client directly (I
> have been using thunderbird and it works great).
> 
> Using IMAP with Yahoo! Mail
> 
> http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&y=PROD_MAIL_MOBILE&locale=en_US&id=SLN3361
> 
> Instructions for using fetchmail with Yahoo! Mail
> 
> Add something like this to your .fetchmailrc file :
> 
> poll imap.mail.yahoo.com with proto IMAP service 993 user 'username' 
> there with password 'xxxxxxxxx' is 'me' here options fetchall ssl
> 
> The username does not have @yahoo.com in the string.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ravi.

I want to thank you as everyone else has.  Fetchyahoo has been very
useful for a long time.

Please  consider that yahoo can remove the IMAP functionality at any
time.  What will happen if they put fetchyahoo out of action, and then
disallow IMAP?  Just think about it.