Mail::Webmail::Yahoo ==================== ****************************************************************************** * * * Mail Storage Quota Warning * * Hello Yahoo Mail User! * * You are approaching your quota of 6.0 Megabytes (MB) of storage. You are * * currently using 5.2 MB of storage. (Details) * * * * Expand your mailbox! * * * * Get up to 100 MB of storage for your mailbox. Starting at just $9.99/year! * * Please order more storage or delete older and/or larger messages so that * * you can be assured of sending and receiving mail. * * We recommend that you keep at least 1 MB of space free for incoming mail. * * Please be sure to "empty" your trash after you have deleted your messages -* * the space in your mailbox will not be freed until the trash folder is * * emptied. * * * ****************************************************************************** If you've ever seen the above, this package might be for you. Frustrated by the lack of bulk processing tools in Yahoo mail, I was prompted to write this package. It allows you to download to your local machine all of the messages in your Yahoo account, attachments included. Future versions will allow bulk deletion, forwarding, and other useful mail functions. This is version 0.6 of the Mail::Webmail::Yahoo package; it may be slightly brittle. While I have been testing it and using it on my own yahoo accounts for several weeks, I would appreciate any feedback, positive or negative. Older versions of this package used 'snagmail.pl' and 'sendhoo.pl' to perform message retrieval and send duties. These have now been rolled into a much enhanced 'yahootils.pl' application. They remain in the distribution but will be removed at some future date. yahootils.pl comes with full instructions included. To see all available options, call yahootils.pl --help INSTALLATION Note: This module requires a secure sockets layer library (such as openssl, available from www.openssl.org) and a perl wrapper for such. I recommend Crypt::SSLeay To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test # (optional, but recommended) make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: LWP::UserAgent Crypt::SSLeay or other SSL wrapper/ library HTTP::Request HTTP::Headers HTTP::Cookies HTML::LinkExtor HTML::Entities Mail::Internet MIME::Base64 HTML::FormParser HTML::TableExtractor HTML::TableContentParser HTML::Element HTML::TreeBuilder CGI COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2002,2003 Simon Drabble This module is released under the same terms as perl itself. Please see http://www.perl.com for full details. DISCLAIMER This module is not published or authorised by Yahoo Inc. in any way. Please DO NOT contact Yahoo Inc. regarding use of this software. CAVEATS There may be some issues with messages converted from HTML to plaintext. This is due to the way HTML::Element renders as_text(), although I expect to tidy it up in future. Generally if the message has the correct content type, things should for the most part work as expected.