Read emails from mail.Yahoo.com

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I want to read the Emails from a Yahoo account using C#. I have all the valid credentials. I am using IMAP, but when I try to read the Emails it says "access to the service is not permitted". I have to read the Emails from Yahoo only without "Yahoo! Plus" account, not gmail or hotmail etc. I am using "imap.mail.yahoo.com" as imap server, 993 port and SSL.

Posted 17-Jun-13 23:38pm

asaeed123

Updated 17-Jun-13 23:41pm

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Richard MacCutchan 18-Jun-13 5:43am

You need to check the help on the Yahoo website to see what settings are needed to read emails directly.

asaeed123 18-Jun-13 6:16am

I have tried many setting but almost same or no result at the end. the setting I mentioned above is also from the Yahoo help.

Richard MacCutchan 18-Jun-13 6:18am

If this message comes from Yahoo, then it means that they are blocking access; you need to contact them to find out why.

asaeed123 19-Jun-13 8:28am

Thanks Richard, I think I need to implement yahoo Email web service in my application. as mentioned by Bill down here...

Mike Meinz 18-Jun-13 8:57am

This may or may not help you. I setup Yahoo mail via IMAP in my MS Outlook client. It did not work until I noticed that the IMAP interface requires the full Yahoo email address as the username unlike the mail.yahoo.com web interface which only requires the username part and not the "@yahoo.com" part. See Setting up IMAP on mobile device or email client.

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BillWoodruff · Answer 1 · 2013-06-18T02:56:00

Suggest you take a look at the open-source IMap X2 facility: there's source code here with annotation about accessing Yahoo Mail: [^]

When you say have all the valid credentials, does that include your registering with YDN, and getting both consumer, and secret, keys ?

Note that Yahoo mail facility now uses OAuth for access permission, but, "The recommended authentication method for access to a Yahoo! user's mail account is OAuth. While you may still use the Browser Based Authentication (BBAuth) API, it has been deprecated."

Yahoo OAuth: [^]

There are articles here on CP that talk about using OAuth.