Yahoo Mail Develeopment Information

[sgtevmckay]

I spent a couple of weeks beating the internet and finally just called to Yahoo and they pointed me to their Mail development page.

And here we go:
http://developer.yahoo.com/mail/
Everything we need is right here, but there are some limitations, most of which are defined by your account level.
There is a maximum of 6 standard refreshes per hour.
The general policys we need to be concerned with are as follows:
User's Guide.
http://developer.yahoo.com/mail/docs/user_guide/

The following material needs to be thoroughly gone over:
Terms of Service:
http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/utos-173.html

Terms of Use:
http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/api/api-2140.html

Yahoo! Developer Network Guidelines:
http://info.yahoo.com/guidelines/us/yahoo/ydn/ydn-3955.html

None of these are terribly restrictive!

Now there is a project registration process, and I will step up and place from my account, but only if there is serious interest.
A programmer may or may not be necessary to assist in this as I am no programmer, so please review the user's guide link closely.

There is also one other open source solution, and it is a bit outside my current understanding, as I have not had the time to fully research this solution.

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YPOPs! is a free open source software that provides POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo! Mail. You can use your favourite email client, be it Outlook, Thunderbird, or whatever else you like and connect to Yahoo! Mail seamlessly.
http://ypopsemail.com/

YPOPs in their own words does the following:
this application is more like a gateway. It provides a POP3 server interface at o­ne end to talk to email clients and an HTTP client (browser) interface at the other which allows it to talk to Yahoo! The same concept holds good for SMTP as well.

Since this application is open source the code is freely available. I have been in contact with these folks and they would be unopposed to our own development based on this work.

I am unsure if this a viable solution, but everything is worth looking into.

If you have any questions let me know.

[Lloveria]

I would definitely be interested in that. However, I am no programmer, so you would be on your own there. Sorry!

[vlek]

Nice find, but there's some very obvious problems one would run into right from the get-go:

1. Rainmeter/Lua cannot do anything but retrieve data. Half of the cool stuff you can do with that API is useless to us considering we can't send anything but requests for url's (Without a server and some fancy url work unless you want it running in the background of your computer with a more than likely less-than seemless program window).

2. The YPop3 thing is talking about using a third-party program for emails. One would have to have a button which shows that there is an email which opens the third party program in order to respond to it/delete it. At best one could make rainmeter stop bugging you about it if it were programmed to recognize that one has clicked on it or acknowledged it.

However, what you've brought up may be a lot better than the big "NO" everyone else has been receiving when they ask whether rainmeter could retrieve email information for yahoo. I'm too tired to see if it will actually work. haha.

[jsmorley]

Nice find, but there's some very obvious problems one would run into right from the get-go:

1. Rainmeter/Lua cannot do anything but retrieve data. Half of the cool stuff you can do with that API is useless to us considering we can't send anything but requests for url's (Without a server and some fancy url work unless you want it running in the background of your computer with a more than likely less-than seemless program window).

2. The YPop3 thing is talking about using a third-party program for emails. One would have to have a button which shows that there is an email which opens the third party program in order to respond to it/delete it. At best one could make rainmeter stop bugging you about it if it were programmed to recognize that one has clicked on it or acknowledged it.

However, what you've brought up may be a lot better than the big "NO" everyone else has been receiving when they ask whether rainmeter could retrieve email information for yahoo. I'm too tired to see if it will actually work. haha.

Please don't gravedig 2-3 year old posts.