Free access yahoo mail software for linux

As you probably know, Yahoo Mail does not provide free POP access to its users any more. You can still use your YM account for free, but you have to use a Yahoo Mail web site to access your account.
This is not very convenient as you always have to be online, you cannot use your favourite e-mail client to read your messages, and so on. You can easily immagine the disadvantages of having to manage all your corespondence via web.
When Yahoo disabled its free POP access, the first thing that came to my mind was to change my e-mail account. But then I realized, there are far too many people used to my current Yahoo Mail address, that I am used to my YM address very much too and I thought - if Yahoo closes a free service, the other services will follow sooner or later. So changing an e-mail service/account wasnt really solution.
That is when I have decided to write YoSucker as a simple portable perl application, that would simulate a user actions to retrieve my mail to my local inbox. Yahoo Mail Sucker simply connects to the Yahoo Mail web site, parses the HTML code and fetches new messages.
With time I have added lots of other features and functionality (like support for multiple accounts, support for procmail, support for local Yahoo Mail sites, for proxy connection and much more) but the basic idea still stay the same...
Main features:
- secure SSL login
- support for multiple accounts
- encrypted passwords for enhanced security
- transaction safe writes
- support for various folders (including BULK mail)
- support for multiuser environment
- support for multiple mailboxes in one config file
- support for procmail (output to a pipe)
- support for localized Yahoo Mail sites
- support for proxy
- support for basic proxy authorization
- support of command line parameters
- powerful digest feature for listing mailbox content
- handles virtually unlimited number of messages
- LeaveOnServer, EmptyTrash and OnlyNew features
- restore message unread flag feature
- powerful CLEAN option
- quota storage warning system
- session Respawn feature
Enhancements:
- This things been around too long be be a prototype any longer.
- Filtered the annoying "Yahoo! Domain Keys" message in From header

Yahoo! Mail Notifier is an extension which notifies you when new messages arrive in your Yahoo mailbox.
Notification options include: customizable sound, notification alert, status bar and toolbar icon.
Also allows the user to map different mouse buttons to open Yahoo Mail in different tabs,windows,etc.
System requirements:
- Firefox 0.9.x - 3.0a3 ALL
- Mozilla 1.7 - 1.8 ALL
- SeaMonkey 1.0 - 1.5a ALL
Version restrictions:
1. The extension uses the Yahoo! Companion feed to check for new mail so only new messages received since last viewing your Yahoo Mailbox will be counted as new.
2. On some accounts, Yahoo! never updates the companion feed page when new mail arrives (you never see new mail notifications). This is a bug with your Yahoo account so contact Yahoo to have it fixed. If you dont get new mail notification when installing Yahoos official toolbar (toolbar.yahoo.com), then you are experiencing this problem.
3. Only the username marked as default will be checked for new mail. The extension can only check for mail if the user remains logged in. Logging out on a Yahoo page while the extension is actively checking will cause the extension to log back in to the default userss account the next time it checks for email. This is also true if you have sinced logged into another Yahoo account on a Yahoo page. This is done to prevent the extension from getting into a weird state where it thinks one user is logged in when in fact another user is. This will be fixed more thoroughly when multi-user support is added. If you dont want this to occur, use the extensions "log out" command instead of logging out on the Yahoo page which will log the default user out and stop checking for new mail.
4. Choosing a sound file to play on new mail has been reported to not work on Macs. The default sound is said to work. I dont have a Mac so I cant test this.
5. Im told that installing this extension in FreeBSD Firefox causes Firefox to crash. Im unable to test this as I dont have FreeBSD. Generally though all browser crashes should be reported to Mozilla since this is extension should be incapable of crashing the browser unless the browser is buggy.

Sethi Yahoo News Grabber is a small script used for fetching news from Yahoo.

Quick and dirty routine to get Yahoo news

Should save result to a text file and then SSI the sucker where you want

Finance::Quote::Yahoo::nz is a Perl module to fetch nzn stock quotes via Yahoo.

SYNOPSIS

use Finance::Quote;
my $q = Finance::Quote->new;

my %info = $q->fetch("yahoo_nz","DPC"); # Use this module only.
my %info = $q->fetch("nz","DPC"); # Failover with other methods.

This module allows information to be fetched from Yahoo about stocks traded on the New Zealand Stock Exchange. Information about indexes is not available through this module.

This module is loaded by default on a Finance::Quote object, although it can be explicitly loaded by passing the argument "Yahoo::nz" to Finance::Quote->new().
This module provides only the "yahoo_nz" fetch methods. The author (stephen@vital.org.nz) will write a module to access the NZX site if asked nicely.
Information obtained via this module is governed by Yahoos terms and conditions, see http://au.finance.yahoo.com/ for more details.

LABELS RETURNED

This module returns all the standard labels (where available) provided by Yahoo, as well as the currency label. See Finance::Quote::Yahoo::Base for more information.

Mail::Webmail::Yahoo is a Perl module that enables bulk download of yahoo.com -based webmail.

SYNOPSIS

use Mail::Webmail::Yahoo;
$yahoo = Mail::Webmail::Yahoo->new(%options);
@folders = $yahoo->get_folder_list();
@messages = $yahoo->get_mail_messages(Inbox, all);
# Write messages to disk here, or do something else.

This module grew out of the need to download a large archive of web mail in bulk. As of the modules creation Yahoo did not provide a simple method of performing bulk operations.

This module is intended to make up for that shortcoming.

METHODS

$yahoo = new Mail::Webmail::Yahoo(...)

Creates a new Mail::Webmail::Yahoo object. Pass parameters in key => value form, and these must include, at a minimum:

username
password

You may also pass an optional cookie file as cookie_file => /path/to/file.
$yahoo->connect();

Connects the application with the site. Really this is not necessary, but its in here for hysterical raisins.
$yahoo->login();

Method which performs the login stage of connecting to the site. This method can take a while to complete since there are at least several re-directs when logging in to Yahoo.

Returns 0 if already logged in, 1 if successful, otherwise sets $@ and returns undef.
@headers = $yahoo->get_mail_headers($folder);

***REMOVED***

@messages = $yahoo->get_mail_messages($folder);

Returns an array of message headers for the $folder folder. These are mostly in Mail::Internet format, which is nice but involves constructing them from what Yahoo provides -- which aint much. When an individual message is requested, we can get more info via turning on the headers, so this method requests each method in turn (caching for future use, unless cache_messages is turned off) and builds a Mail::Internet object from each message.

You can get the raw headers from get_folder_index().

Note that for reasons of efficiency this method collects headers and the full text of the message, and this is cached to avoid having to go back to the network each time. To force a refresh, set the Snagmail objects cache to 0 with

$yahoo->cache_messages(0);
$yahoo->cache_headers(0);

Note: There used to be a $callback parameter to this method, but since it was never used it has been removed.

my $msg = $yahoo->_process_message($page, $yahoo_msg_id);

Extracts and returns as a Mail::Internet object the headers and message body from the provided HTML ($page).

my $msg = $yahoo->_extract_headers($page, $yahoo_msg_id);

Performs the actual extraction of the message headers from the given HTML in $page. Pushes the $yahoo_msg_id into the headers as X-Yahoo-MsgId. Also adds a version header.

my $ok = $yahoo->_extract_body($mhdr, $page);

Extracts and adds to the Mail::Internet object in $mhdr the message body, including any attachments parsed out of $page. Returns 1 to indicate success, although no error conditions are currently checked for/ handled.

$page = $yahoo->download_attachment($download_uri, $mailmsg);

Downloads an attachment from the specified URI. $mailmsg is a reference to a Mail::Internet object. The downloaded attachment is added to the mailmsg via add_attachment_to_message()

$yahoo->add_attachment_to_message($msg, $attachment, $filename);

Adds the $attachment to $msg, adjusting Content-Type and MIME-Version as necessary.

$yahoo->make_multipart_boundary()

Currently does nothing useful. So far all messages have had correct types.

$yahoo->get_folder_action_link($mbox, $linktype, $force);

Returns and stores the action link for the given $linktype. This is a URI that will cause an action to be performed on a message set, such as DELETE or MOVE.

@message_headers = $yahoo->get_folder_index($folder);

Returns a list of all the messages in the specified folder. These messages are stored as URIs. Logs the user in if necessary.

@messages = $yahoo->_get_message_links($page)

(Private instance method)

Returns the actual links (as an array) needed to pull down the messages. This method is used internally and is not intended to be used from applications, since the messages returned are not in a very friendly form. This method returns only the messages referenced on a given page, and is called from get_folder_index() to build up a complete list of all messages in a folder.

@folders = $yahoo->get_folder_list();

Returns a list of folders in the account. Logs the user in if necessary. Also stores the two special folders (Trash and Bulk) so they can be emptied later.

$ok = $yahoo->send($to, $subject, $body, $cc, $bcc, $flags);

Attempts to send a message to the recipients listed in $to, $cc, and $bcc, with the specified subject and body text. $to,$cc, and $bcc can be scalars or arrayrefs containing lists of recipients.

Logs the user in if necessary.

$flags may contain any combination of the constants exported by this package. Currently, these constants are:
SAVE_COPY_TO_SENT_FOLDER : saves a copy of a sent message
ATTACH_SIG : attaches the senders Yahoo signature
SEND_AS_HTML : sends the message in HTML format.
cc and bcc come after subject and body in the parameter list (instead of with to) since it is expected that

send(to, subject, body)

will be more common than sending to Cc or BCc recipients - at least, this is how it is in my experience.

As of this version, address-book lookups are not supported.
As of this version, mail attachments are not supported.
$resp = $yahoo->_get_a_page($uri, $method, $params);
(Private instance method)

Requests and returns a page found at the specified $uri via the specified $method. If $params (an arrayref) is present it will be formatted according to the method.

If method is empty or undefined, it defaults to GET. The ordering of the parameters, while seemingly counter-intuitive, allows one of the great virtues of programming (laziness) by not requiring that the method be passed for every call.

Returns the response object if no error occurs, undef on error.
$current_trace_level = $yahoo->trace($new_trace_level);
if $new_trace_level exists, sets the new level for tracing the operation of the object. Returns the current trace level (i.e. before setting a new one).

Trace levels are:

0 no tracing output; warning messages only.
> 0 informative messages ("what I am doing")
> 1 URIs being fetched
> 2 request response codes
> 3 request parameters
> 4 any other extra debugging info.
> 9 request response content

$yahoo->debug(...);

Sends debugging messages to STDERR, appended with a newline.
$yahoo->make_host($uri) or Yahoo::make_host($uri)

Returns a string consisting of just the scheme, host, and port parts of the URI. The URI::URL::as_string method returns the full URI (including path) but leaves out the port number, which is why its unsuitable here.

Finance::Quote::Yahoo::USA is a Perl module to obtain information about stocks and funds in the USA and Canada.

SYNOPSIS

use Finance::Quote;

$q = Finance::Quote->new;

%info = $q->fetch("usa","SGI");

This method provides access to financial information from a number of exhcanges in the United States and Canada. The following methods are available:

canada
usa
yahoo
nyse
nasdaq
vanguard
fidelity

These methods all use the same information source, and hence can be considered somewhat interchangable. However, the method "yahoo" should be passed to fetch if you wish to obtain information from any source that Yahoo tracks.

This method is loaded by default by Finance::Quote, although it can be explicitly loaded by passing the argument "Yahoo::USA" to Finance::Quote->new().

Information returned by this module may be subject to Yahoos terms and conditions. See http://finance.yahoo.com/ for more information.

LABELS RETURNED

This module returns all the standard labels that Yahoo provides, as well as the currency label. See Finance::Quote::Yahoo::Base for more information.

BUGS

Yahoo does not make a distinction between the various exchanges in the United States and Canada. For example, it is possible to request a stock using the "NYSE" method and still obtain data even if that stock does not exist on the NYSE but exists on a different exchange.

Yahoo! Messenger for Unix sends instant messages to your Windows and Unix friends!
Enhancements:
- Improved Emoticons - Improved Message Archive - Improved sound on RedHat kernels - Yahoo! Address Book integration - File transfer with Windows clients -