Thank you Jeremy and Curt. It worked! Finding the T and Y cookies was indeed simpler than I feared.
Gerardo Il giorno dom 27 ott 2019 alle ore 01:35 Gerardo Ballabio <gerardo.balla...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > > Thank you, but I need some more help. > > I've downloaded the script, but the README says that I need to supply > "the T and Y cookie" and that I should be able to extract them from my > browser. > > My browser is Firefox. I've checked and it doesn't seem to provide a > way to extract cookies. Apparently that requires installing an > extension, and I don't know whether Debian provides that (I'd rather > avoid installing random extensions from the Internet). > > Furthermore I don't know what "the T and Y cookie" are and how to find > them among other cookies. > > Any help will be much appreciated. > > Thanks > Gerardo > > Il giorno mar 22 ott 2019 alle ore 22:12 Dan Ritter > <d...@randomstring.org> ha scritto: > > > > Gerardo Ballabio wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > I've learned that Yahoo Groups is going to drop most of its > > > functionality, in particular it won't host any user contents any more, > > > including the email archive. > > > > > > I'm a member of a private group, we have an archive of several > > > thousands email messages that we don't want to lose. > > > > > > May I please ask for suggestions on how to mass-download the email > > > archive from a Debian (Buster) machine? > > > > > > I'm not subscribed to this list, please keep me Cc:'d. > > > > This > > > > https://github.com/nsapa/yahoo-group-archiver > > > > should work on Debian without much fussing. > > > > -dsr-