I searched the site about it, but couldn't find any nodes--though I admit I didn't try very long; for some reason the past several weeks the site's been going *real* slow.

I want to write a perl program that'll login to my Yahoo account, retrieve the text from the e-mails within a certain category, change the text to html, then ftp the html to my web-site. The last two I don't need help on--in fact, I just finished the html converter. For those that are interested, it takes in a quote of the day, reads in the text, and saves it in appropriate html as the date, i.e., June_29_2001.html.

The problem is, however, that I don't know how to get into my yahoo account and get the mail. I don't have much experiene with working with mailing scripts(well, none to be brutally honest), and I'd like to do it with as few modules as possible. (if it helps, the files are in a directory called 'qotd')

In reply to Mail and Yahoo and Perl by dimmesdale

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