YPOPs! POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo! Mail

YPOPs! is a free open source software that provides POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo! Mail. You can use your favourite email client, be it Outlook, Thunderbird, or whatever else you like and connect to Yahoo! Mail seamlessly.

How do we do it you ask? Well, this application is more like a gateway. It provides a POP3 server interface at o*ne end to talk to email clients and an HTTP client (browser) interface at the other which allows it to talk to Yahoo! The same concept holds good for SMTP as well.

Warning:
IMAP might not be enabled for all accounts! Switch your profile to Yahoo! Asia if it fails at first!

Tests Performed:
1. Tested with 5 different accounts; some with Yahoo! Asia as profile as some retained with US and UK profiles
2. IMAP worked for all; POP3 did not work for any!
3. Tested with email downloads with some accounts have in excess of 1000 emails. All retrieved successfully in single POP3 session.

Request:
1. If it does not work for you, please PM me. I will need to investigate further.

Next Steps:
1. SOAP protocol support. Programmer hoping to get this very soon. Will keep posting progress on a regular basis.
2. SMTP support. Once SOAP support has been completed, it will be time to take up this big challenge.

Download it here.
( Direct Download )

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