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.