On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:47:10PM -0400 or thereabouts, Marco Paganini wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 10:01:14PM -0400, S.D.A. wrote: > > > Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't know what the advantage of FetchYahoo > > is. I use Yahoo to, but I have no problem with fetchmail retreving the mail > > from Yahoo at the same time it polls my other Mail hosts. Use Thunderbird to > > read the local mail spool, after retreiving e-mail with fetchmail. > > > > The easiest way to configure fetchmail is with Webmin and the fetchmail module. > > Yahoo only provides pop accounts to people who pay them $$. Fetchyahoo > downloads emails by parsing the web page. There is an option in > fetchyahoo to pipe mail to another program. In his case, he could pipe > to "formail|procmail" or simply to "/usr/sbin/sendmail his_user". Both > approaches should work equally well. I've never paid Yahoo a dime, and I'm able to retrieve from pop. They even have a page, showing one how to do it. One can also forward to another account. Go to your Yahoo account, open up the mail area, click on 'options', once in 'mail options', click on the 'POP Access and Forwarding' link, for the instructions. -- Steve +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Wednesday Jun 23 2004 10:53:01 PM EDT +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Poverty begins at home.
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