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Fw: Jim Bell's Email crash
Maybe related to this semi-breach?
http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/75083532312/important-security-update-for-yahoo-mail-users
Looks like someone took a previously leaked DB of emails/passwords and ran
it against Yahoo's servers.
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 6:19 PM, David <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/30/14 2:20 PM, jim bell wrote:
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> (Raising the question: Is there a reasonably straightforward mechanism
>> to allow a disgusted user to (easily and automatically) transfer all of
>> his emails from one system to another? Obviously, email service
>> providers are motivated to try to lock in users, but maybe there's a way
>> to fight this.)
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> IMAP.
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> I have IMAP set up on my Yahoo account:
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> Server: imap.mail.yahoo.com
> Port: 993
> Username: [email protected]
> SSL/TLS
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> Then I can just transfer messages to another IMAP account.
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