This query is somewhat related to the recent thread here about Google mail, IMAP and POP.
I have some e-mail in my yahoo account that I would like to move to my Gmail account. This would be a snap if Yahoo provided a (free) POP service. You can just connect to Yahoo/POP and Gmail/IMAP, then drag-and-drop. (Works. Verified for one message. See below.) Just on principle, I don't want to pay the $20 to activate the POP service to suck out _my_ e-mail just time. :-) So, there is this Windows program called YPOPs! What it does, if I understand it correctly, is this: It talks HTTP(S) to Yahoo and requests, in two parts, the mail body and the mail headers, then writes them together to form a single message. It runs a POP server on the localhost (127.0.0.1) address. So, any mail client that can talk to a POP server can download the e-mail. Pretty neat idea. Except, I can't get it to work. The first time I tried it, it worked for my 1st Yahoo message. Unfortunately, my second message had an attachment about 3Meg and I think, it choked on it. When I deleted that message, even the Yahoo web interface crapped out that night. The following morning, the web mail worked fine (I guess Yahoo automatically fixes any anomalies in mailboxes). But YPOPs refused to download any messages including the 1st that did work once. Yes, I did try "telnet localhost 110" and issuing the POP commands; login (user/pass) works, list works, retr # does not. Anyone has had better luck with YPOPs or any similar third party yahoo-to-pop alternatives? Someone has ported YPOPs to linux and there's even an ubuntu package. (http://t-skariah.blogspot.com/2007/04/ypops-for-ubuntu.html) Installed that also. It is a different version from the Windows one. Same result. Authentication works fine, but can't get messages. There's a perl script called yosucker (look in sourceforge). It attempts to do https only and it encrypts the password first. Authentication fails. So, no go from the front door. Has anyone else done this Yahoo to Gmail mail migration? After banging my head on this for a couple of days, that $20 looks awfully cheap, even for just 155 messages. (what principles?) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
