On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:39:43 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 11/10/2010 08:57 AM, Celejar wrote:
>> You misunderstand - I'm asking you how *you've* tried to POP directly >> from Yahoo - with what tool, settings, etc.? > I let thunderbird figure it out. And when I try to connect **YAHOO** > says NO, that email address is not allowed to get pop3 mail. So the > settings don't matter, yahoo knows that it isn't a pop3-illegible > account Sorry for the noise but... did anyone try to connect to Yahoo via IMAP? It seems to be responding: s...@stt008:~$ telnet imap.mail.yahoo.com 143 Trying 212.82.96.94... Connected to imap.mail.eu.am0.yahoodns.net. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 ID NAMESPACE X-ID-ACLID UIDPLUS LITERAL+ XAPPLEPUSHSERVICE LOGINDISABLED AUTH=XYMCOOKIE AUTH=XYMECOOKIE AUTH=XYMCOOKIEB64 AUTH=XYMPKI STARTTLS] IMAP4rev1 imapgate-0.7.65_12.286037 imap404.mail.ukl.yahoo.com Or is it also restricted to paid accounts? Wikipedia seems to say it is open for everyone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Mail#Free_IMAP_and_SMTPs_access Maybe fetchmail is capable to work this way... Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.11.10.15.16...@gmail.com