On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 21:21:17 +0200 Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Lu, 08 nov 10, 06:10:06, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > On 11/08/2010 03:20 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:> Because Yahoo has paid > > only POP3 access. You can however let another > > > free provider fetch your yahoo mail, like Gmail or GMX, both offer quite > > > good IMAP/POP access > > > > I didn't realize that you could import Yahoo email into GMail.. but it > > DOES use "yet another third party app": > > http://www.trueswitch.com/gmail/terms/index_en.html?lang=en > > and it is limited, and it is a beta, and it will only pull in mail for > > up to 30 days. > > Nope. See > http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=21288 > > (Yes, it says your provider has to have POP access, but it works for me > with my Yahoo account and so did GMX. Whoa. This sounded really weird - is Gmail scraping Yahoo? Or do they have a private deal to get POP access? Why would Yahoo do that? So I began to try it myself - but when I saw that it was clearly a POP setup, right before handing over my Yahoo password to Gmail, I thought that I'd better try POP myself first. So I fired up getmail, and voilà! Vanilla POP access! Yahoo still claims that you only get POP access if you sign up for Mail Plus: > Do I have to sign up for Yahoo! Mail Plus to POP my mail? > > Last Updated: August 31, 2010 > > The ability to access Yahoo! Mail via a POP3 email client (such as > Outlook or Outlook Express) is only available to customers of our > premium Yahoo! Mail Plus service. > > If you have not purchased the Yahoo! Mail Plus service, you will be > unable to retrieve messages via an email client. To determine whether > or not you have purchased this service, please visit the My Services > page. *shrugs* FWIW, I'm using POP over SSL at port 995: Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- 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/20101109152555.97ff7deb.cele...@gmail.com
