Throwing this out, as some of the IT-centric guys here may work in IT like myself, and as they say, It never hurts to ask.
I am fed up with trying to sort and find important email from my multiple yahoo accounts. I spent two hours over a couple of days playing with YPOPS and FreePOP, as well as a perl script (probably built by some guy in a basement somewhere), but no joy with any of them.
I want to be able to either forward my email accounts to a central account and use a client (Outlook, Opera, Thunderbird, etc) to pull in all the different sources and run sorting rules against them. I'm about at the point of building my own email server, if it weren't for the headache of buying/maintaining a domain name. I'm perfectly capable, but at that point, it seems too much like what I already do all day (server/SANS building and maintenance/Network Security).
I am unwilling to:
1) Go with Gmail (they used to 'do no evil' but I'm not so sure any more. )
2) Pollute my existing work email accounts (they are spam free; Work is only for work, and I like it that way)
3) Pay Yahoo for the service (@$20 per account)
Does anyone have a working model of what I've described for on-the-cheap?
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WilburTheHorse
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posted: Mar. 13, 2012 @ 9:47p
How about forwarding them to a ISP email account that has POP3 access for free?
ynzheng
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posted: Mar. 14, 2012 @ 4:08a
yahoo deny forwardinghis multiple yahoo accounts to any ISP email account for free,i think
minidrag
Senior Member - 4K
posted: Mar. 14, 2012 @ 6:35a
Exactly - the free yahoo account doesn't allow POP or forwarding, which is the reason OP is having trouble here.
OP - you said no gmail. While I don't agree, I certainly understand.
I believe Hotmail offers forwarding on their free accounts.
Are you willing to pay a smaller amount than the Yahoo pay service though? There are lots of cheap POP email services available. This godaddy email is only $1.29 a month, for instance.
forbin4040
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posted: Mar. 14, 2012 @ 11:45a
Too bad OP ruled out Gmail, they had a way to import Yahoo. Ypops is hit or miss, their servers need to be updated everytime yahoo updates their client. And your password is stored at Ypops which I don't trust.
Even setting up an entire server won't work with yahoo, you are still using yahoo and yahoo won't forward the mail without their $20 love.
One day, Yahoo lost a bunch of my mail due to a hardware failure on their side. They don't keep backups and my mail was lost. They said there was absolutely no way to recover it (about a month later after someone actually responded to my incident). I asked them for a refund on my paid account and they denied it. I promptly switched to the free account and kept it there.
Yahoo has too much random spam. At least my accounts get an enormous amount of spam.
I do continue to use yahoo, however it's really only used for email marketers. All personal and business emails go elsewhere.
I DO NOT recommend getting an account on the GoDaddy servers. They block too many legitimate emails and really don't give a damn about the customer's opinion.
forbin4040
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posted: Mar. 14, 2012 @ 1:51p
I don't have an issue with GoDaddy blocking anyone, I have MANY other issues with them (Slow emails, no more than 200 per hour allowed to be sent, etc) but not a blocking issue.
skibum43
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posted: Mar. 14, 2012 @ 6:31p
poppeeper does a reasonably good job of aggregating multiple yahoo accounts ( as well as other providers) in one place.
forbin4040
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posted: Mar. 14, 2012 @ 6:42p
skibum43 said: poppeeper does a reasonably good job of aggregating multiple yahoo accounts ( as well as other providers) in one place.Only if you have a way to get to the imap server of yahoo which most accounts can't do if Free version
marsilies - Thank you for the tip. I went to Zimbra's site, which showed 'pricing' with a minimum of 25 licenses. Digging futher, I found they did offer a free version but it only talks IMAP, not POP3.
Back to Google, and dug around...finding articles that Yahoo owned part of Zimbra; Sadly, that was old news, and VMware had purchased them, which seemed like a good thing, since we are a VWware customer at work.
..which is basically a review of Zimbra, but the real gem was in the comments. One commenter states he pulls his Yahoo email for free, using a non-plus account, and provided the port/address he's using for Thunderbird. I plugged that information into Opera, and BAM! - I'm at 1300+ headers downloaded and still counting up.
I think I've found my solution, and though it didn't end up like being the answer I started out seeking, its a welcome surprise, and FREE
I hope this thread helps someone else - That's for all of the input, guys and a big +1 to you, Marsilies!
marsilies
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posted: Mar. 15, 2012 @ 8:16a
Logan71 said: marsilies - Thank you for the tip. I went to Zimbra's site, which showed 'pricing' with a minimum of 25 licenses. Digging futher, I found they did offer a free version but it only talks IMAP, not POP3. Zimbra Desktop is free. You were looking at pricing and features of their server product.
One commenter states he pulls his Yahoo email for free, using a non-plus account, and provided the port/address he's using for Thunderbird. I plugged that information into Opera, and BAM! - I'm at 1300+ headers downloaded and still counting up.
For others, the info on using yahoo IMAP for free is:
imap.mail.yahoo.com:993 SSL
skibum43
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posted: Mar. 15, 2012 @ 9:32p
Not true - I have the free version of yahoo mail and poppeeper can access my free yahoo accounts - no special imap access required.
"The WebMail plugin allows you to check your mail on many popular webmail servers (listed below). The WebMail plugin is available when you install POP Peeper; ..."
forbin4040 said: skibum43 said: poppeeper does a reasonably good job of aggregating multiple yahoo accounts ( as well as other providers) in one place.Only if you have a way to get to the imap server of yahoo which most accounts can't do if Free version
minidrag
Senior Member - 4K
posted: Mar. 16, 2012 @ 5:56a
skibum43 said: Not true - I have the free version of yahoo mail and poppeeper can access my free yahoo accounts - no special imap access required.
"The WebMail plugin allows you to check your mail on many popular webmail servers (listed below). The WebMail plugin is available when you install POP Peeper; ..."
forbin4040 said: skibum43 said: poppeeper does a reasonably good job of aggregating multiple yahoo accounts ( as well as other providers) in one place.Only if you have a way to get to the imap server of yahoo which most accounts can't do if Free version
According to their own FAQ it works through Yahoo IMAP. Looks like the setting are already in the program though so maybe it's just transparent to you.
skibum43
Senior Member - 5K
posted: Mar. 16, 2012 @ 1:03p
Where do you see that? Did you miss my quote about the webmail plugin? AFAIK, it accesses yahoo mail through the webmail plugin. There is no automatic IMAP configuration as far as I can see.
minidrag said:
According to their own FAQ it works through Yahoo IMAP. Looks like the setting are already in the program though so maybe it's just transparent to you.
minidrag
Senior Member - 4K
posted: Mar. 16, 2012 @ 1:06p
Yes, I missed the plugin. This is what I saw:
How do I setup access for Yahoo?
Although it's unofficial, Yahoo.com may support Imap, but it may not work for all accounts. Here are the settings:
Incoming Mail Settings: Login Name: Full email address (e.g. example@yahoo.com) Server Type: IMAP Server: imap.mail.yahoo.com TLS (TLS/SSL is required) Port: 143 (if using SSL: 993) Idle: optional
Send Mail Settings: Reply Option: SMTP Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com none or SSL (TLS is NOT supported) Port: 25 or 587 (if using SSL: 465) Server Requires Authentication: Enabled
LordB
Senior Member - 2K
posted: Mar. 16, 2012 @ 3:37p
While I agree google's do no evil thing is BS I do find it hard to believe that yahoo would be any better. And given that google is a far better interface I would go with it.
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