Yahoo! imaps access with mutt
 

Hello,

I have been trying to access my yahoo! mail easily from my n900, and I thought I would open this up. (Comments, abuse, etc.)

According to the internet the yahoo IMAP servers do not work with normal authentication mechanisms. (They use a XYMPKI method which involves submitting your yahoo id to a webserver, and getting a cookie back).

However according to http://www.crasseux.com/linux/ if you send a custom command 'ID ("GUID" "1")' it will then accept a login. This will also work over SSL. SMTP over SSL also works. So in a lot of very real ways, this is more secure than the web-interface.

So I have patched the latest version of the venerable mutt, compiled it according to the instructions for n810 and presto-chango, it works.

The .muttrc file has been tuned for yahoo, and you'll need to put in your email address and password. Or leave the password out if you are happy to enter them every time.

UPDATE 4/3/10

I have repackaged this against the libsasl2-2 library in extras-devel. You need to install this and libncursesw5.


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1397036/n900...20-1_armel.deb

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1397036/n900_mutt/.muttrc

If you installed the old package, I recommend purging that and the cyrus library. I also ran maemo-optify-deb against this, so it should be optified.

I am going to update the package with versions and dependencies later, but I can't currently get to my scratchbox.

I have a working patch/hack against libetpan, the imap library that claws-mail uses. If any one wants this then let me know.

DISCLAIMER: These packages have barely been compiled, they may well hose your system. This is all dependant on Yahoo not changing its rather flaky authentication system, so may all just stop working.

EDIT: Forgot to credit http://www.courville.org/mediawiki/index.php/N810
for the compile instructions.

Re: Yahoo! imaps access with mutt
 

Many thanks for the above post. Actually, mutt is up and running on my N900 since I installed the apps. I also linked it with lynx for better html display and the (so far) only problem I am having is lack of urlview for Maemo 5.

Does anyone know of a working compilation of urlview on Nokia N900? If not, could someone please try to compile it or at least point me out to a set of commands on how to do the compilation? I'm a long lasting Debian user but have no experience in Maemo SDK/scratchbox at all.

I would really appreciate your kind help.

Best Regards

Re: Yahoo! imaps access with mutt
 

This seems to be actually working !

thanks !

Re: Yahoo! imaps access with mutt
 

Glad I could help. I can try and compile urlview. I need to crank up my scratchbox to have a go with claws anyway, as I finally hacked a patch that got it working with Yahoo! But Scratchbox with Debian is pretty straightforward, all you need is a few gig of disk space.

Also I am working on a script to work with the desktop-cmd-exec widget to provide a desktop notifier of new e-mail. A sort of imap-biff (heavily based on imapbiff). If this is of interest to anyone let me know.

Re: Yahoo! imaps access with mutt
 

looks great...i would love to have something like this instead of dealing with slow nokia messaging....maybe when someone optified it, i will give it a try. :D

Re: Yahoo! imaps access with mutt
 

I would absolutely love that. It would save me hours of work. Would you be able to give me the patch? Thanks in advance.

Re: Yahoo! imaps access with mutt
 

I'd be glad to see urlview and qiv compiled for N900. The scripts you are referring to, have you worked them out, yet? I'd also be interested to see your version of claws-mail.

I think I have some dependency problems while reinstalling mutt and cyrus-sasl. The latter contains libsasl2.so.2 which is also in package libsasl2-2. Mutt installation won't proceed without libsasl2-2, and when I install libsasl2-2, it'll let me install mutt (but no cyrus-sasl) and I'm getting 'No authenticators' error from mutt :-(

Sorry, not enough time for spending on N900 -- family and stuff :-) But I really admire your excellent work and would like to help whenever possible ;-)

Update: Kenchy (or anybody else, who can help in that respect), could you please email me at ici (at) aristos (dot) org (dot) uk? For reasons unknown to me I cannot PM you! Many thanks!