450116 – net-mail/fetchyahoo is dead and should be removed from the tree

Bug 450116 - net-mail/fetchyahoo is dead and should be removed from the tree

Summary: net-mail/fetchyahoo is dead and should be removed from the tree

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Net-Mail Packages

URL:	http://fetchyahoo.twizzler.org
Whiteboard:	Pending removal: 2014-05-26
Keywords:	PMASKED

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Blocks:

Reported:	2013-01-04 04:10 UTC by Christopher Byrne
Modified:	2014-06-13 10:01 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Christopher Byrne 2013-01-04 04:10:50 UTC

The current version (2.14.7) does not work anymore due to changes on Yahoo's side: Just changed the version number. Compile and runtime testesd. 

One additional workaround may be needed from some users: Users must uncheck "Turn on SSL" in Yahoo! Mail Options for it to work.

Comment 1 Christopher Byrne 2013-08-08 02:22:45 UTC

fetchyahoo has been deprecated by the author. It been mostly nonfunctional since Spring 2013 and completely nonfunctional since mid-June of 2013 due to changes in Yahoo's webmail interface. Futhermore it is no longer needed anyway, as Yahoo has free IMAP

Per the author: 

"Fetchyahoo has been deprecated. Use fetchmail instead.

The original intention of fetchyahoo was to replace fetchmail for Yahoo! Mail since the free Yahoo! Mail supported neither POP nor IMAP. But Yahoo! Mail now supports IMAP so using fetchmail or standard mail clients is now possible and fetchyahoo is no longer necessary."

Its time to treeclean this sucker.

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2014-04-07 18:39:06 UTC

CCing treecleaners then

Comment 3 Eray Aslan gentoo-dev

2014-04-26 11:35:12 UTC

# Eray Aslan <eras@gentoo.org> (26 Apr 2014)
# Non-functional and no longer needed - bug #450116
# Removal in 30 days
net-mail/fetchyahoo

Comment 4 Eray Aslan gentoo-dev

2014-06-13 10:01:29 UTC

Punted from the tree.