FetchYahoo

Current Version: 2.5.3 - 04/02/03 (Changelog)

Older Versions: 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

To-Do/Bugs

Note

If you would like to see FetchYahoo work with Yahoo's new layout in your language I need you to use the new layout and send me the foreign language equivalents for "Messages 1-2 of 3" and "This folder has no messages" exactly as they appear on Yahoo!'s new web interface .

Other Versions/programs - untested and unsupported

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 - This program (gotmail) (written by Peter Hawkins) does the same thing as FetchYahoo for Hotmail webmail. It has a new maintainer and is being actively developed again with a new webpage.
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 this program (web2pop) which downloads from webmail services and transparently transmits them through a pop server on the local machine (similar to the pop-version given above) . This is very cool, but unfortunately the software costs $20 US.
MrPostman is a free software initiative which uses java to do the same thing Web2Pop does, but right now it only supports Yahoo! and is in an alpha stage of development.
This webpage uses FetchYahoo to forward your Yahoo! mail to any e-mail address you specify. Although this is pretty cool, it does require that you enter your Yahoo! username and password, so I cannot recommend that you use this (even if you change your password immediately afterwards, there is still a risk).
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 probably broken.
This version contains https support and a few extra options for entering the username/password. I have already integrated the https patch (as of v.1.1) and am going to work on integrating the others very soon. Credit to Thanh Nguyen for this patched version. Also given here is a useful shell script which can process multiple username/password pairs, stored in an encrypted file. This functionality will almost certainly not be integrated into FetchYahoo for a while.

Description

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.