After hours of hair tearning [not an exageration] I managed to "get
Yahoo mail working" on Arachne. Those quotation marks were intended to
imply that perchance it was not the fault of Arachne; such is the case.
My daughter's account was more of a "pain" than many others, because she
had @yahoo not thru choice but thru buy out. Originally her account was
with rocketmail; her e-dress is still @rocketmail.
When the changeover was made, there was a redirect put in place to take
her to Yahoo mail to login. That login page was saved to her hotlist.
Everything was working half-way decently, then Yahoo started changing
things, and now it's "aka Yahoo" under more new mismangement.
It took a great deal of patience on gregy's part, and more than a bit of
trust, to show me that Yahoo mail *could* work on MY 1.67 setup. I
finally got everything setup & running on the test install, and went to
the 1.66 version the kids have access to. I went through all the steps,
and once again Yahoo mail was NOT working -- I was in a perpetual login
loop. :< I tried everything, even pull an RTFAQ to no avail. I was
getting ready to drop-kick anything/one that came near me. Then, at
O'dark-thirty I realized I'd been taking shortcuts, using her hotlist.
And I discovered the secret of [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- and while I slept I
realized why it works that way now -- busy BUSY servers.
Yahoo is now using extremely short-term cookies to make certain that
users are RAPIDLY timed out from e-mail access in particular; many phone
companies offer web access only with their DSL service -- no mail or
other stuff, so people HAVE to used web-based e-mail service, which mean
Yahoo has to keep people from tying up their servers by simply walking
away or shutting down without logging out.
The way they decided to do this -- the issuance of new short-term
cookies -- is through their "My Yahoo" interface. (There are a lot of
ads there, so this approach on their part may have more than one
motive.)
In other words, if a user doesn't access Yahoo through his/her
personalized "My Yahoo" page, the requisite cookies are not issued and
Yahoo mail gives the incorrect response of the endless-login-loop for
e-mail.
----- How to Use Arachne at Yahoo Dot Com for E-mail etc ---
If you want to open an [EMAIL PROTECTED] account ....
If you previously used Yahoo e-mail and can no longer login ...
... Take the following steps and you should meet with success.
1. Clean out all old references to Yahoo in your cookie.lst, or just
delete the sucker [the ads on Arachne home page can fill the file
quickly with their cookies so house cleaning is a good idea anyway].
2. Make certain you have cookies enabled.
3. If you already have a Yahoo username & password because of webrings
or other services -- other than e-mail -- which Yahoo has bought out,
use that username & password to set up your "My Yahoo" page. (If you
have both already, I don't know if you can do any editing of your
accounts to change things ... sorry about that.)
4. Login to www.yahoo.com and look for the GUI "My" circle top R of
page; click there and a join/login screen will appear; bookmark this
login page so you can use Hotlist in future.
5. If you're already a "member" login; if not use the JOIN pages to do
your thing. Use a handle & password you can remember, because collecting
the user/password cookie ["remember" button] won't do you any good with
Arachne. NO BIGGIE!
6. Once logged in, you'll be on your personal page. LH side, near top,
is "Message Center" and *there* is where you select the option to read
your e-mail. It *will* work if accessed in this way.
[Note: I have not tested the 'send e-mail' ability of Arachne on this
platform, but have been assured that once a person is logged in via the
steps Yahoo wants, it does work.]
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Now anyone who wants to use Arachne & e-mail should be able to do so;
and *I* can get my daughter to stop her complaining about MY software
and place the blame where it belongs -- on Yahoo.
l.d.
P.S. Does anyone know how to get e-mail forwarded from Yahoo to another
e-dress? Can it be done?
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