Re: Mail and Yahoo and Perl

I don't see what mailing-specific scripts you'd need here. Yahoo mail doesn't have a publically available POP3 or IMAP server; you have to receive mail by going to their website. Which means scraping HTML from their display of email (and probably means that you don't have to convert the email text to HTML, as it will be presented that way already).

So it just looks like some form submissions followed by HTML parsing.

update: Absolutely, if you can use their POP3, then do it!

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Re: Re: Mail and Yahoo and Perl by RhetTbull (Curate) on Jun 30, 2001 at 00:45 UTC
Actually Yahoo does support POP3. It is not enabled by default and in order to enable it you have to agree to let Yahoo spam you from time to time but it is there and does work well. On the Yahoo Mail page select "Options" then "POP Access & Forwarding." I would imagine that enabling POP access and using one of the POP3 modules on CPAN would be easier than scraping the HTML pages. And of course your script can selectively delete any email sent to you by Yahoo...	[reply]
Re: Re: Mail and Yahoo and Perl by gryphon (Abbot) on Jun 30, 2001 at 00:41 UTC
Yes it does.	[reply]