Re: [fetchyahoo-announce] Fetchyahoo officially deprecated

[Tom M. <tme...@gm...>]

Ravi R wrote:
> Yahoo! Mail now supports IMAP...
> http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&y=PROD_MAIL_MOBILE&locale=en_US&id=SLN3361

Thanks for the heads up on that. I was unaware they moved that
capability to their free tier.

I gather this is a result of Marissa Mayer trying to make Yahoo! Mail
more competitive with Gmail.


> I am officially deprecating fetchyahoo since it is no longer needed. 

I'll add to the chorus of thanks.

I haven't used fetchyahoo in 2 or 3 years - as my use of Yahoo accounts
dwindled, it became easier to manually login there once every 6 months
than to keep fetchyahoo updated - but back when it was needed, it really
came in handy.


Joe User wrote:
> 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.

They could, but it wouldn't be practical to continue expending effort
keeping up with Yahoo's UI changes, while hardly no one is using
fetchyahoo, having moved on to the IMAP interface.

And after a few years have passed, there's a good chance the Yahoo UI
will have changed so much that it'll be more work than it is worth to
fix fetchyahoo to work with it.

On the up side, it would be an excellent opportunity to re-implement
fetchyahoo from scratch. Since it was originally created, a lot has
changed in the available Perl libraries for mail handling and HTML parsing.

Even back in the early 2000's when I first started using it, I had
considered refactoring it to use then more modern libraries, but it
worked as-is and seemed like a good enough stop-gap solution.

 -Tom