ports/178246: mail/fetchyahoo: is BROKEN
Lawrence Chen
beastie at tardisi.com
Tue Apr 30 01:30:01 UTC 2013
>Number: 178246
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: mail/fetchyahoo: is BROKEN
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Apr 30 01:30:00 UTC 2013
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Lawrence Chen
>Release: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE amd64
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD zen.lhaven.homeip.net 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec 4 09:23:10 UTC 2012 root at farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
fetchyahoo seems to be no longer able to fetch mail from yahoo.
The classic mail interface which it depends on is no longer available
it seems, and since the program has been in maintenance mode for some
time it will likely not get fixed, especially with the current work
around.
>How-To-Repeat:
run it, and watch the errors. It suggests checking for newer version.
>Fix:
On the discussion list, it was mentioned that fetching Yahoo! mail
using their IMAP server appears to be free.
Suggested line for fetchmail is:
poll imap.mail.yahoo.com with proto IMAP port 993 user '<username>'
with password '<password>' is '<localusername>' here ssl
folder 'Bulk Mail'
Which is basically what I put into my fetchmailrc. Though I'm
continuing to use POP3 for my Yahoo accounts that still work that way,
leftover from when I had Yahoo!DSL.
Note: there is a 2.14.9 version, but updating the port and trying
this version didn't resolve the problem.
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