Not The Best Day of My Life
OK, I exaggerate ... but having a Yahoo! Mail API is really freaking exciting and something I've been hoping to see for years.
Freaking. Almost. Awesome.
I will be changing my browsers' homepage to something different (a custom page on my own domain, or maybe Bloglines) for the first time since 1998.
update: Jeremy Zawodny has more info, including the fact they have referral fees for Premium upgrades and "unlimited" storage.
update: The offerings are limited for free accounts, but meet my needs: you can list messages.
update: Ugh ... are they really gonna require that it be a web app and that I authenticate through my web browser all the time? That is way weaker than GMail's offerings.
Per the Yahoo! Group:
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> so, you cant't use the API without having to host a wabserver?
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Not right now. Since the Yahoo! Mail Web Service uses Browser Based Authentication (http://developer.yahoo.com/auth) you'll need to have a domain set up to get started with an application ID.
Ryan Kennedy
Yahoo! Mail
I read that Yahoo was going to offer email accounts with unlimited storage. I wonder if I could use this API to continuously send myself extremely large, poorly compressible messages.
I want to find out if they really mean it when they say "unlimited."
Posted by: *dell on March 30, 2007 12:58 PM | permalink# dd if=/dev/urandom of=~/email.file bs=1024k count=1 && mailx -s Testing me@yahoo.com ~/email.file
That should do it just fine. Stick it in a while true loop for good measure.
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