Having just set up my laptop with Ubuntu (Looks nice, feels kinda-good) I'm
looking to see if I can get Thunderbird to automatically download all the
email I receive from Yahoo!
Anyone been successful at this? How can it be done?
Many thanks
A
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Having just set up my laptop with Ubuntu (Looks nice, feels kinda-good) I'm
looking to see if I can get Thunderbird to automatically download all the
email I receive from Yahoo!
Anyone been successful at this? How can it be done?
Many thanks
A
On 2008-03-28, 80 H <adam.t.harvey@REMOVEntlworld.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Having just set up my laptop with Ubuntu (Looks nice, feels kinda-good) I'm
> looking to see if I can get Thunderbird to automatically download all the
> email I receive from Yahoo!
>
> Anyone been successful at this? How can it be done?
>[/color]
I do not think that Yahoo offers you an ability to retrieve mail via
POP or IMAP. Am I mistaken?
gmail does this however.
i
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:20:01 -0500, Ignoramus17370 wrote:
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> On 2008-03-28, 80 H <adam.t.harvey@REMOVEntlworld.com> wrote:[color=green]
>> Having just set up my laptop with Ubuntu (Looks nice, feels kinda-good)
>> I'm looking to see if I can get Thunderbird to automatically download
>> all the email I receive from Yahoo!
>>
>> Anyone been successful at this? How can it be done?
>>
>>[/color]
> I do not think that Yahoo offers you an ability to retrieve mail via POP
> or IMAP. Am I mistaken?[/color]
The standard, free yahoo webmail accounts don't allow retrieval via POP3
or IMAP. But I believe there is a premium option that allows POP
retrieval.
On 2008-03-28, firebrand <firebrand@dontreply.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:20:01 -0500, Ignoramus17370 wrote:
>[color=green]
>> On 2008-03-28, 80 H <adam.t.harvey@REMOVEntlworld.com> wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> Having just set up my laptop with Ubuntu (Looks nice, feels kinda-good)
>>> I'm looking to see if I can get Thunderbird to automatically download
>>> all the email I receive from Yahoo!
>>>
>>> Anyone been successful at this? How can it be done?
>>>
>>>[/color]
>> I do not think that Yahoo offers you an ability to retrieve mail via POP
>> or IMAP. Am I mistaken?[/color]
>
> The standard, free yahoo webmail accounts don't allow retrieval via POP3
> or IMAP. But I believe there is a premium option that allows POP
> retrieval.
>[/color]
I moved to gmail where I get everything for free.
i
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:00:15 GMT, 80 H wrote:[color=blue]
> Having just set up my laptop with Ubuntu (Looks nice, feels kinda-good) I'm
> looking to see if I can get Thunderbird to automatically download all the
> email I receive from Yahoo!
>
> Anyone been successful at this?[/color]
Not me, as you have stated the request.
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> How can it be done?[/color]
I run Mandriva linux so the steps would have to be worked out by you
for ubuntu.
I installed the fetchyahoo and imap package. imap package on Mandriva
installs pop3 on my system which allows mail clients to fetch/send
email from my linux box (wm81.home.test).
I created a yahoo user linux account on wm81.home.test.
The yahoo user account has a cron job which runs on the hour.
It executes fetchyahoo to pull [email]my_yahoo_login@yahoo.com[/email] email down
and place it in my home.test yahoo email box.
Now my linux yahoo account can run any mail client (thunderbird), set the
in/outbound mail server as wm81.home.test and pickup/send email.
I have postfix set as my Mail Transport Agent.
Whenever postfix sees outbound email from [email]yahoo@wm81.home.test[/email], it converts the
email header to indicate it came from [email]my_yahoo_login@yahoo.com[/email].
Anyone replying to that sent email will cause the reply to go to
[email]my_yahoo_login@yahoo.com[/email] account.
I have done the same for my web hotmail account using getlive from
[url]http://sourceforge.net[/url]
80 H wrote:[color=blue]
> Having just set up my laptop with Ubuntu (Looks nice, feels kinda-good) I'm
> looking to see if I can get Thunderbird to automatically download all the
> email I receive from Yahoo![/color]
[url]http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_webmail_with_your_email_client[/url]
Using webmail with your email client - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
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Take care,
Jonathan
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[url]http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com[/url]
Jonathan N. Little wrote:[color=blue]
> 80 H wrote:[color=green]
>> Having just set up my laptop with Ubuntu (Looks nice, feels
>> kinda-good) I'm looking to see if I can get Thunderbird to
>> automatically download all the email I receive from Yahoo![/color]
>
> [url]http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_webmail_with_your_email_client[/url]
> Using webmail with your email client - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
>[/color]
Yahoo is no problem, just get the server names correct.
Incoming POP = ' pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk ' (or .com) and the
SMTP server is the one given by your ISP e.g. ' relay.plus.net '
there is no security setting.
It is easier to set up than Gmail. There is a help file on Yahoo
website too.
G.L.!