preventing yahoo accounts from expiry

[Guest]

I am wondering if there is a way of preventing my yahoo email accounts from
expiry for not logging on after 6 months or so, say a yahoo email account
that can retrieve mail msgs from other yahoo email accounts, and somehow
give the impression to yahoo that you logged on as usual, I suspect just
forwarding pop msgs wouldn't work as you have still not logged on to your
yahoo email and would prevent it from expiry after 6 months, ofcourse I
could be wrong.

 

[J.O. Aho]

I am wondering if there is a way of preventing my yahoo email accounts from
expiry for not logging on after 6 months or so, say a yahoo email account
that can retrieve mail msgs from other yahoo email accounts, and somehow
give the impression to yahoo that you logged on as usual, I suspect just
forwarding pop msgs wouldn't work as you have still not logged on to your
yahoo email and would prevent it from expiry after 6 months, ofcourse I
could be wrong.

Use wget and a cron job that does login once in a while, say once every month.

 

[Ben C]

Use wget and a cron job that does login once in a while, say once
every month.

Can you submit formdata with wget? Better to use curl.

 

[J.O. Aho]

Can you submit formdata with wget? Better to use curl.

Sure, it supports POST and GET, cookies, spoofing browser ids and so on.

 

[Andy Dingley]

I am wondering if there is a way of preventing my yahoo email accounts from
expiry for not logging on after 6 months or so,

You might be interested in this

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/01/lycos_demands_1995_r.html
http://idaho-hum.com/2007/02/01/lycos-held-my-emails-for-ransom-for-1995/

 

[Adrienne Boswell]

You might be interested in this

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/01/lycos_demands_1995_r.html
http://idaho-hum.com/2007/02/01/lycos-held-my-emails-for-ransom-for- 199
5/

That's nasty, but consider the poor folks with AOL accounts. Not only
to they have to pay, AOL doesn't store their email. They delete it
after a few months --- and these folks PAY!

 

[Blinky the Shark]

That's nasty, but consider the poor folks with AOL accounts.
Not only to they have to pay, AOL doesn't store their email.
They delete it after a few months --- and these folks PAY!

Nobody's forcing them to use AOL. They're there of their own
stupidity.