fetchyahoo 2.11.3 - not working /w updated Classic Yahoo mail accounts

[Jason Kendall]

Binary package hint: fetchyahoo

New version has been released - current in universe is very old and no longer working

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.10"

fetchyahoo:
  Installed: 2.10.8-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.10.8-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.10.8-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca gutsy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx)]

I'd like to second this motion.

[Chris Brotherton (protonchris)]

Currently, hardy has version 2.11.2. Does this version currently work with yahoo?

[Jason Kendall (coolacid)]

2.11.2 may work (I haven't tested it yet, but will when I get home to my box)

Attached is the change log from 2.11.0:

v2.11.3 03/03/08
* if we are deleting msgs, don't bother marking read
* fix uninitialized variable bug
* fix safe-download bug (thanks Damian Frank)
* print diagnostics if we don't get any message IDs
* check for another intermittent Yahoo error page
* fix logout bug

v2.11.2 09/05/07
* fix multiple folders bugs (thanks sniper11)
* improve e-mail address parsing (thanks Stuart)

v2.11.1 08/31/07
* fix bug where msgs were never being marked as read

v2.11.0 08/28/07
* fix "can't find message" error with new Yahoo internals
* replace html character entities in msg summaries

[Chris Brotherton (protonchris)]

If the version that is in Hardy works, we could consider submitting a backport to gutsy (no guarantees that it will be accepted). If we need version 2.11.3, I'll submit an updated package to Hardy and backport to Gutsy (again no guarantees the new package will be accepted).

[pvdeynse (vandeynse)]

Yahoo has recently updated their Classic Mail interface and the old 2.11.3 version of fetchyahoo cannot download from updated accounts.
The latest 2.12 alpha versions of fetchyahoo will download from the new (update Classic) Yahoo accounts

I've been testing version "2.12 alpha 11" under Ubuntu 8.04 for several days now, and it's working fine.
You can download the latest version here: http://fetchyahoo.twizzler.org/

Since it's only a perl script untar the file and install the new file over /usr/bin/fetchyahoo

[Chris Brotherton (protonchris)]

This package is a sync from debian. The latest version in the repo is 2.11.4. Does the 2.11.4 version fix the bug?

[Jason Kendall (coolacid)]

2.11.2 from hardy does not work. 2.11.4 does not work either.

Looks like yahoo changed page systems again and only working version is alpha.

2.12.0 alpha 17 DOES currently work.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

7.10 has reached end of life. Has this been a problem on 12.04 or later?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for fetchyahoo (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]