[TriLUG] Slightly OT: Popping Yahoo Mail

[Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG]

Years ago the difficulty of getting yahoo mail to cooperate properly with a
local email client solidified my switch over to gmail.

I will say this, when using a local client my personal favorite is mutt.
Call me old school but email in a terminal is ideal to me when not using a
web client.

Other than that I found Evolution and Kmail to work well, depending where
on the Gnome or KDE fence you sit.

Ken

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Matt Flyer via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> > Hi LUGgers,
> >
> > Has anyone used POP with yahoo mail successfully?  I tried it with
> > several years worth of email yesterday, and the results are scrambled.
> >
> > Any clues or suggestions?
> >
> > I haven't used IMAP very much, but it's available.  Is there a way to
> > use it in thunderbird to pull everything to a local folder?
> >
> Probably not much of a suggestion or help, but have you tried something
> other than Thunderbird?  The reason I ask is according to an article I saw
> about a week ago
> (
> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/thunderbird-a-tax-on-firefox-development-and-mozilla-wants-to-drop-it/
> )
> it doesn't look like Thunderbird has had more than security updates in
> over a year.  It was my experience that it also tended to act flaky with
> some mail servers too.
>
> A mail client using IMAP may be another thing to try because it is a more
> feature rich protocol in terms of communicating and synchronizing with the
> mail servers whereas POP seems to be more of a dump and download type.  Of
> course it all comes down to what feature level is supported on either end
> and whether or not the developer implemented it properly.
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