YahooPOPS and Pimmy

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A long time ago, when the program was brand new, I tried YahooPOPS with
Calypso and nPOP and couldn't get it to work correctly. But I was able to
use ePrompter to access my Yahoo accounts, so it was probably just bugs in
the early program; I'll assume they have been ironed out. My question is
this: I have since changed to Pimmy as my mail client. I was wondering if
anyone has had success using YahooPOPS with Pimmy and what the settings
would be. Also...since I don't remember...how many Yahoo accounts can the
program handle? Thanks.
 
jason said:
A long time ago, when the program was brand new, I tried YahooPOPS
with Calypso and nPOP and couldn't get it to work correctly. But I
was able to use ePrompter to access my Yahoo accounts, so it was
probably just bugs in the early program; I'll assume they have been
ironed out. My question is this: I have since changed to Pimmy as my
mail client. I was wondering if anyone has had success using
YahooPOPS with Pimmy and what the settings would be. Also...since I
don't remember...how many Yahoo accounts can the program handle?
Thanks.
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Just thought I'd change the subject line to make it a little more generic.
Does YahooPOPS work with just about ANY email client...even if it's not one
of the ones listed. And again, how many Yahoo accounts can the program
handle?
 
jason said:
Just thought I'd change the subject line to make it a little more generic.
Does YahooPOPS work with just about ANY email client...even if it's not one
of the ones listed. And again, how many Yahoo accounts can the program
handle?
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I'm successfully using it with Mozilla 1.4 mail. Don't know how much
accounts it can handle though...

Regards,
Bart
 
Angelo Donatiello said:
Hi Jason,

I can't help you with settings now, but generally speaking I think you
should change provider properties in Pimmy and use "localhost" as POP3
server.

Many people told me they use YahooPOPS with Pimmy, so try downloading
YahooPOPS. You can find it here http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/
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Thanks Angelo, just the recommendation I need!

Looking at the homepage though, I can't see if it supports more than one
Yahoo account. Can anyone help me out here? I think it only supported one
account in the beginning, but that could have changed.
 
Bart said:
I'm successfully using it with Mozilla 1.4 mail. Don't know how much
accounts it can handle though...
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Thanks Bart. One of the Pimmy authors said it works with Pimmy as well.
I'll just need to find out if it handles multiple accounts. I currently
have six Yahoo accounts, so I'll need the ability to monitor six accounts
if I switch from ePrompter to YahooPOPS.
 
Angelo Donatiello said:
jason <[email protected]> ha scritto:
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[snip]
Many people told me they use YahooPOPS with Pimmy, so try
downloading YahooPOPS. You can find it here
http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/
Click to expand...

Thanks Angelo, just the recommendation I need!

Looking at the homepage though, I can't see if it supports more than
one Yahoo account. Can anyone help me out here? I think it only
supported one account in the beginning, but that could have changed.
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It'll support as many Yahoo accounts as your email client can handle.

YahooPops works as a sort of proxy between your email client and Yahoo.
YahooPops itself holds no account information. As long as you've
entered the account names and passwords into your email client (and
pointed it to the appropriate port (on "localhost", "127.0.0.1",
192.168.0.1" or whatever suits your system) YahooPops will pass on that
info to the Yahoo server and download your mail.

While we're on the subject of downloading mail from web-based accounts,
if you need to download Hotmail but want to use your own choice of
email client then Hotmail Popper ( http://www.boolean.ca/hotpop/ -
freeware) does the same thing for, well, Hotmail! :)

I'm currently using both programs with Hamster and can vouch for the
fact that they both work exactly as advertised.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,


Allan.
 
Allan said:
While we're on the subject of downloading mail from web-based accounts,
if you need to download Hotmail but want to use your own choice of
email client then Hotmail Popper ( http://www.boolean.ca/hotpop/ -
freeware) does the same thing for, well, Hotmail! :)

I'm currently using both programs with Hamster and can vouch for the
fact that they both work exactly as advertised.
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Does anybody happen to know about a program like Hotmail Popper, but
then Open Source and for Windows?

Regards,
Bart
 
Allan said:
On 13/12/2003, jason wrote:

It'll support as many Yahoo accounts as your email client can handle.
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That's very good news indeed, thanks!
YahooPops works as a sort of proxy between your email client and Yahoo.
YahooPops itself holds no account information. As long as you've
entered the account names and passwords into your email client (and
pointed it to the appropriate port (on "localhost", "127.0.0.1",
192.168.0.1" or whatever suits your system) YahooPops will pass on that
info to the Yahoo server and download your mail.
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Excellent! Thanks again.
 
Allan said:
While we're on the subject of downloading mail from web-based
accounts, if you need to download Hotmail but want to use your own
choice of email client then Hotmail Popper (
http://www.boolean.ca/hotpop/ - freeware) does the same thing for,
well, Hotmail! :)
Click to expand...
[snip]

Does anybody happen to know about a program like Hotmail Popper, but
then Open Source and for Windows?
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Poptray ( http://www.poptray.org/ ) looks like it fits the bill.

It's for Windows, it's open source and it supports Hotmail via a
plug-in (also open source) available from the main site.

I haven't tried it though (and the plug-in is marked as "Beta") so I
can't guarantee that it'll do everything you need.

Cheers,


Allan.
 
Angelo Donatiello said:
jason <[email protected]> ha scritto:
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[snip]
Many people told me they use YahooPOPS with Pimmy, so try
downloading YahooPOPS. You can find it here
http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
[snip]
YahooPops works as a sort of proxy between your email client and Yahoo.
YahooPops itself holds no account information. As long as you've
entered the account names and passwords into your email client (and
pointed it to the appropriate port (on "localhost", "127.0.0.1",
192.168.0.1" or whatever suits your system) YahooPops will pass on that
info to the Yahoo server and download your mail.

While we're on the subject of downloading mail from web-based accounts,
if you need to download Hotmail but want to use your own choice of
email client then Hotmail Popper ( http://www.boolean.ca/hotpop/ -
freeware) does the same thing for, well, Hotmail! :)

I'm currently using both programs with Hamster and can vouch for the
fact that they both work exactly as advertised.

Hope this helps.
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I'm curious if your ISP provides you a number of email addresses with
the service. Why go through the trouble of using web based email? Is
the only reason that you prefer an email address that can move with you
if you relocate?

TIA, Spacey
 
Spacey said:
I'm curious if your ISP provides you a number of email addresses with
the service. Why go through the trouble of using web based email? Is
the only reason that you prefer an email address that can move with you
if you relocate?
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Not sure who you're addressing this too...but Yahoo/Hotmail allow you to
set up "throwaway" mail accounts. I have two ISP-provided e-mail accounts,
and I limit them to family, friends and work. I use Yahoo for other
things. And those "other things" tend to attract a lot of spam.
 
Not sure who you're addressing this too...but Yahoo/Hotmail allow you to
set up "throwaway" mail accounts. I have two ISP-provided e-mail accounts,
and I limit them to family, friends and work. I use Yahoo for other
things. And those "other things" tend to attract a lot of spam.
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Thanks, and, I was addressing anyone who wanted to respond :)
 
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 18:38:51 GMT,"Spacey Spade" posted ...
I'm curious if your ISP provides you a number of email addresses with
the service. Why go through the trouble of using web based email? Is
the only reason that you prefer an email address that can move with you
if you relocate?
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I'm not trying to answer for the OP but I use MailWasher and YahooPOPs to
check two very long time http://www.yahoo.com/ email addresses which
because of the length of time I've had them, do receive some junk mail.
MailWasher also checks Hotmail addresses I give out when required to
while visiting web sites etc.

Some ISP provide multiple email addresses but I use just one of those
offered and that's only so the ISP can contact me. I also don't use the
ISP news server. If their service deteriorates as I have no permanent
ties I can instantly ditch the ISP and signup with another.

I prefer to use http://au.yahoo.com/ as an ongoing email provider because
Yahoo Australia & NZ provide an excellent email facility with free pop
access and also the email address is still valid if [when?] I relocate.
 
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