Re: How to download email messages from Yahoo Groups in Debian?

[Gerardo Ballabio <gerardo.ballabio@gmail.com>]

Thank you Jeremy and Curt. It worked!
Finding the T and Y cookies was indeed simpler than I feared.

Gerardo




Il giorno dom 27 ott 2019 alle ore 01:35 Gerardo Ballabio
<gerardo.ballabio@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
> Thank you, but I need some more help.
>
> I've downloaded the script, but the README says that I need to supply
> "the T and Y cookie" and that I should be able to extract them from my
> browser.
>
> My browser is Firefox. I've checked and it doesn't seem to provide a
> way to extract cookies. Apparently that requires installing an
> extension, and I don't know whether Debian provides that (I'd rather
> avoid installing random extensions from the Internet).
>
> Furthermore I don't know what "the T and Y cookie" are and how to find
> them among other cookies.
>
> Any help will be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Gerardo
>
> Il giorno mar 22 ott 2019 alle ore 22:12 Dan Ritter
> <dsr@randomstring.org> ha scritto:
> >
> > Gerardo Ballabio wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > > I've learned that Yahoo Groups is going to drop most of its
> > > functionality, in particular it won't host any user contents any more,
> > > including the email archive.
> > >
> > > I'm a member of a private group, we have an archive of several
> > > thousands email messages that we don't want to lose.
> > >
> > > May I please ask for suggestions on how to mass-download the email
> > > archive from a Debian (Buster) machine?
> > >
> > > I'm not subscribed to this list, please keep me Cc:'d.
> >
> > This
> >
> > https://github.com/nsapa/yahoo-group-archiver
> >
> > should work on Debian without much fussing.
> >
> > -dsr-