FETCHYAHOO(1)						      General Commands Manual						     FETCHYAHOO(1)

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NAME

       fetchyahoo - retrieve mail from Yahoo!'s webmail service

SYNOPSIS

       fetchyahoo [options]

DESCRIPTION

       FetchYahoo  is  a Perl script that downloads mail from a Yahoo!	account to a local mail spool. It is meant to replace fetchmail for people
       using Yahoo! mail since Yahoo!'s POP service no longer free. It downloads messages to a local mail spool, including all parts  and  attach-
       ments.  It  then deletes messages unless requested not to. It can also optionally forward messages to a specified e-mail address and repeat
       with a given interval.

OPTIONS

       This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').  A summary of options is included
       below.  For additional information, see the HTML documentation.

       --help Show summary of options.

       --version
	      Show version of program.

       --quiet, --noquiet
	      Suppress (or do not suppress) non-error messages.

       --noerrors, --errors
	      Suppress (or do not suppress) error messages.

       --configfile=CONFIG-FILE
	      Use CONFIG-FILE as the configuration file.

       --username=USERNAME
	      Use USERNAME as the Yahoo! login.

       --password=PASSWORD
	      Use PASSWORD as your Yahoo! password.

       --spoolfile=SPOOL
	      Specify  SPOOL as the file to spool messages to; if --pipe is also specified, SPOOL is a program that accepts messages from standard
	      input (such as procmail).

       --https --nohttps
	      Use insecure plaintext or secure HTTPS to login (default is to use HTTPS).

       --append
	      Append messages to the SPOOL (the default behavior).

       --pipe Pipe messages to the program SPOOL, instead of appending to SPOOL.

       --overwrite
	      Overwrite SPOOL, instead of appending to it.

       --folder=FOLDER
	      Specify the folder on Yahoo! to download messages from.  (Default is Inbox.)

       --newonly
	      Only download new messages.  (The default is to download all messages.)

       --allmsgs
	      Download all messages.

       --nodelete, --delete
	      Do not (or do) delete messages after they are downloaded.

       --nodownload, --download
	      Do not download messages; however, they will be deleted unless --nodelete is also specified.  (--download is the default.)

       --listmessages, --nolistmessages
	      List messages in mail folder. (--nolistmessages is the default.)

       --onlylistmessages
	      Only list messages in mail folder. This combines --listmessages, --nodownload and --nodelete

       --emptybulk
	      Empty Bulk folder before downloading messages.

       --emptytrashbefore
	      Empty trash before downloading messages.

       --emptytrashafter
	      Empty trash after downloading messages.

       --noempty
	      Do not empty trash or bulk.  (Default)

       --leaveunread
	      Leave the messages marked as unread on the server.

       --markread
	      Mark the messages downloaded as read.  (Default)

       --repeatinterval=N
	      Check for mail every N minutes.

       --statusonly, --nostatusonly
	      Just get the number of messages. (--nostatusonly is the default.)

       --getexternal, --nogetexternal
	      Retrieve messages from external mailboxes also. (--nogetexternal is the default.)

       --externalmailboxes=boxes,list
	      retrieve messages from only this comma-separated list of external mailboxes

       --maxmessages=N
	      Maximum number of messages to download (default is 100). Setting this to over 100 may cause problems.

       --warninglevel=N
	      Warn if more than N% of storage quota is used. Never warn if N=0 (default is 0).

       --nofromline, --includefromline
	      Omit (or include) the leading "From " in messages appended or piped. (--includefromline is the default.)

       --logout, --nologout
	      Log out (or do not log out) of Yahoo! on exit. (--nologout is the default.)

       --proxyhost=s
	      Hostname to use for proxy (default is off).

       --proxyport=N
	      Port to use for proxy (default is 80).

       --proxyuser=s
	      Username to use for proxy authentication (default is no authentication)

       --proxypass=s
	      Password to use for proxy authentication (default is no authentication)

       --imaphost=s
	      Hostname to use for IMAP (default is off).

       --imapport=N
	      Port to use for IMAP (default is 143).

       --imapuser=s
	      Username to use for IMAP authentication (no default)

       --imappass=s
	      Password to use for IMAP authentication (no default)

       --imapmailbox=s
	      IMAP mailbox to use (default is INBOX)

       --repeatinterval=N
	      Check for mail every N minutes (daemon mode).

       --md5hex
	      Print the MD5 hex hash value of a password entered interactively

       FILES

       /etc/fetchyahoorc

       $HOME/.fetchyahoorc
	      Configuration files for FetchYahoo.  An example configuration file is located in /usr/share/doc/fetchyahoo/examples/

SEE ALSO

       procmail(1)  /usr/share/doc/fetchyahoo/index.html

AUTHOR

       FetchYahoo  was	written  by  Ravi  Ramkissoon  <ravi_ramkissoon@yahoo.com>.   This   manual   page   was   written   by   Chris   Lawrence
       <lawrencc@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

								September 20, 2002						     FETCHYAHOO(1)