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NAME¶
fetchyahoo - retrieve mail from Yahoo!'s webmail service
SYNOPSIS¶
fetchyahoo [
options]
DESCRIPTION¶
FetchYahoo is a Perl script that downloads mail from a Yahoo! account to
a local mail spool. It is meant to replace fetchmail for people using Yahoo!
mail since Yahoo!'s POP service no longer free. It downloads messages to a
local mail spool, including all parts and attachments. It then deletes
messages unless requested not to. It can also optionally forward messages to a
specified e-mail address and repeat with a given interval.
OPTIONS¶
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options
starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For
additional information, see the HTML documentation.
- --help
- Show summary of options.
- --version
- Show version of program.
- --quiet, --noquiet
- Suppress (or do not suppress) non-error messages.
- --noerrors, --errors
- Suppress (or do not suppress) error messages.
- --configfile=CONFIG-FILE
- Use CONFIG-FILE as the configuration file.
- --username=USERNAME
- Use USERNAME as the Yahoo! login.
- --password=PASSWORD
- Use PASSWORD as your Yahoo! password.
- --spoolfile=SPOOL
- Specify SPOOL as the file to spool messages to; if --pipe
is also specified, SPOOL is a program that accepts messages from standard
input (such as procmail).
- --https --nohttps
- Use insecure plaintext or secure HTTPS to login (default is
to use HTTPS).
- --append
- Append messages to the SPOOL (the default behavior).
- --pipe
- Pipe messages to the program SPOOL, instead of appending to
SPOOL.
- --overwrite
- Overwrite SPOOL, instead of appending to it.
- --folder=FOLDER
- Specify the folder on Yahoo! to download messages from.
(Default is Inbox.)
- --newonly
- Only download new messages. (The default is to download all
messages.)
- --allmsgs
- Download all messages.
- --nodelete, --delete
- Do not (or do) delete messages after they are
downloaded.
- --nodownload, --download
- Do not download messages; however, they will be deleted
unless --nodelete is also specified. (--download is the
default.)
- --listmessages, --nolistmessages
- List messages in mail folder. (--nolistmessages is the
default.)
- --onlylistmessages
- Only list messages in mail folder. This combines
--listmessages, --nodownload and --nodelete
- --emptybulk
- Empty Bulk folder before downloading messages.
- --emptytrashbefore
- Empty trash before downloading messages.
- --emptytrashafter
- Empty trash after downloading messages.
- --noempty
- Do not empty trash or bulk. (Default)
- --leaveunread
- Leave the messages marked as unread on the server.
- --markread
- Mark the messages downloaded as read. (Default)
- --repeatinterval=N
- Check for mail every N minutes.
- --statusonly, --nostatusonly
- Just get the number of messages. (--nostatusonly is the
default.)
- --getexternal, --nogetexternal
- Retrieve messages from external mailboxes also.
(--nogetexternal is the default.)
- --externalmailboxes=boxes,list
- retrieve messages from only this comma-separated list of
external mailboxes
- --maxmessages=N
- Maximum number of messages to download (default is 100).
Setting this to over 100 may cause problems.
- --warninglevel=N
- Warn if more than N% of storage quota is used. Never warn
if N=0 (default is 0).
- --nofromline, --includefromline
- Omit (or include) the leading "From " in messages
appended or piped. (--includefromline is the default.)
- --logout, --nologout
- Log out (or do not log out) of Yahoo! on exit. (--nologout
is the default.)
- --proxyhost=s
- Hostname to use for proxy (default is off).
- --proxyport=N
- Port to use for proxy (default is 80).
- --proxyuser=s
- Username to use for proxy authentication (default is no
authentication)
- --proxypass=s
- Password to use for proxy authentication (default is no
authentication)
- --imaphost=s
- Hostname to use for IMAP (default is off).
- --imapport=N
- Port to use for IMAP (default is 143).
- --imapuser=s
- Username to use for IMAP authentication (no default)
- --imappass=s
- Password to use for IMAP authentication (no default)
- --imapmailbox=s
- IMAP mailbox to use (default is INBOX)
- --repeatinterval=N
- Check for mail every N minutes (daemon mode).
- --md5hex
- Print the MD5 hex hash value of a password entered
interactively
FILES¶
- /etc/fetchyahoorc
- $HOME/.fetchyahoorc
- Configuration files for FetchYahoo. An example
configuration file is located in /usr/share/doc/fetchyahoo/examples/
SEE ALSO¶
procmail(1) /usr/share/doc/fetchyahoo/index.html
AUTHOR¶
FetchYahoo was written by Ravi Ramkissoon <ravi_ramkissoon@yahoo.com>.
This manual page was written by Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
