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Seems a little dumb to pay $20 to purge the account when you can easily use FetchYahoo! located at http://fetchyahoo.twizzler.org/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchyahoo

-eg

I don't get it. I've been using fetchyahoo for years, and have had to upgrade every few months as Yahoo has f*cked with their system, but it works great. What, exactly, are they 'giving away'?

http://fetchyahoo.twizzler.org/

Instead, they should pull out an Ibanez 14-string and play Blind (KoRn), as that's what those ads all over Yahoo! Mail make me... (thank you so much for "fetchyahoo")

Here is a page listing a few programs that can export Yahoo! mail and make it POP accessable or forward to another email address. I personally run the fetchyahoo script as a cron job to forward my Yahoo mail to GMail every so often.

http://fetchyahoo.twizzler.org/

The biggest problem I see is not the one-time mail move, it's going through all of the websites that you've registered your Yahoo mail address with and transitioning it over, and it has been the main limiting factor in my dropping Y! for a while now.

The gmail web interface just blows aways anything yahoo provides. The 1Gig is not the real selling point. Now I just wish ebay would hire the google engineers to redesign their interface.

After all everyone already knows my @yahoo.com email address.

I hope that's not the only reason you don't migrate to another e-mail service. With fetchyahoo, I forwarded all my Yahoo mail to my new address, so that I was able to catch all the people and mailing lists that hadn't started using my new address. I ran fetchyahoo as a cron job on a Linux server; if you are tied to Windows, you could probably run in under Cygwin.

Works great for me ever since Yahoo went to pay only for POP3 service. Open source also. From their website:

Yahoo! Mail disabled free access to its POP3 service in April 2002. This resulted in many people (including myself) to look for alternative free POP3 services. But this exercise can be very difficult because of the fact that your Yahoo! Mail address could be with several people and informing all of them about your new email address could prove to be a nightmare.

And then one day, I stumbled across a Perl script called FetchYahoo, which almost did what I wanted! It downloaded emails from Yahoos website and presented them in a format such that email clients like Netscape and Pine could read them. But, the format in which it saved the emails is not supported by all email clients, including the one that I use. Also, making a layman install Perl and to get a Perl script to work could be a nightmare.

So, YahooPOPs! was born. YahooPOPs! is an open-source initiative to provide free POP3 and SMTP access to your Yahoo! Mail account. YahooPOPs! is available on the Windows and Unix platforms.

YahooPOPs! emulates a POP3/SMTP server and enables popular email clients like Outlook, Netscape, Eudora, Mozilla, IncrediMail, Calypso, etc., to download and send emails from Yahoo! accounts.

How do we do it you ask? Well, this application is more like a gateway. It provides a POP3/SMTP server interface at one end to talk to email clients and an HTTP client (browser) interface at the other which allows it to talk to Yahoo!

I have used fetchyahoo (http://fetchyahoo.twizzler.org), and yahoopops (http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/) to get my mail from Yahoo, and freshmeat also lists another alternative http://mrbook.org/mrpostman/

You still have to move your mail from POP to IMAP, but that can be handled by most e-mail clients.

Balam