FetchYahoo!

# FetchYahoo

## About

FetchYahoo is a Perl script that downloads mail from a Yahoo! account to a local mail spool. It is meant to replace fetchmail for people using Yahoo! mail since Yahoo!'s POP service no longer free. It downloads messages to a local mail spool, including all parts and attachments. It then deletes messages unless requested not to. It can also optionally forward messages to a specified e-mail address and repeat with a given interval.

## Current Version: 2.14.7 - (4/12/12) Change Log

## fetchyahoo is now 10 years old !

## Older Versions: 2.14.6, 2.14.5, 2.14.4, 2.14.3, 2.14.2, 2.14.1, 2.14.0, 2.13.9, 2.13.8, 2.13.7, 2.13.6, 2.13.5, 2.13.4, 2.13.3, 2.13.2, 2.13.1, 2.13.0, 2.12.4, 2.12.3, 2.12.2, 2.12.1, 2.11.4, 2.11.3, 2.11.2, 2.11.1, 2.11.0, 2.10.9, 2.10.8, 2.10.7, 2.10.6, 2.10.5, 2.10.4, 2.10.3, 2.10.2, 2.10.1, 2.10.0, 2.9.0, 2.8.9, 2.8.8, 2.8.7, 2.8.6, 2.8.5, 2.8.4, 2.8.3, 2.8.2, 2.8.1, 2.8.0, 2.7.9, 2.7.7, 2.7.6, 2.7.5, 2.7.2, 2.7.0, 2.6.2, 2.6.1, 2.6.0, 2.5.5, 2.4, 2.3, 2.2, 2.1, 2.0, 1.9, 1.8, 1.7, 1.6, 1.5, 1.4, 1.3, 1.2, 1.1, 1.0, 0.9, 0.8, 0.7, 0.6, 0.5

## Mailing List

If you want to be notified when new versions are released, you can join the SourceForge fetchyahoo-announce mailing list here.

## Requirements & Usage
To-Do/Bugs
Sourceforge Project
Screenshot

## Related Links - Other Versions/programs (untested and unsupported)

- Enabling POP3 for Yahoo Mail gives a set of instructions which claim to enable POP3 access to Yahoo Mail for regular accounts and is reported to work (as of 9/22/09).
- YahooPOPs! is a Windows based utility which does something similar to FetchYahoo program. The application works as a POP3 emulator to download emails from Yahoo and make it available via POP. A *nix port is in progress. I have heard good things about this program !
- Hotmail users can try gotmail which does the same thing as FetchYahoo for Hotmail webmail.
- SendYmail is a perl script to send mail via the Yahoo server. It is designed to be a dropin replacement for sendmail.
- MrPostman is a free software initiative which uses java to download mail from several webmail providers (Yahoo, Hotmail, Mail.com and Another) and makes it available using a POP server.
- Mechanoid is a programmatic Python browser, which includes a script to send Yahoo Mail.
- Yahoo Mail Sucker (YoSucker) is a Perl script that does almost the same thing as FetchYahoo (and in almost the same way). The feature-set, usage and style of coding are slightly different.
- Windows users can also try out web2pop which does the same thing as MrPostman above but natively for Windows. Unfortunately the program costs $20 US.
- This version sets up a POP server on the computer so that it can be used with any mail client supporting POP fetching (most windows clients). I am still not sure whether I want to do this in the main version and if I do, in what form. Credit to Murtaza Nooruddin for this. This is from a very early version of FetchYahoo and is very broken.

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