GMail sucking Yahoo Mail

Finally, GMail now has that POP fetching feature that Yahoo Mail has had like forever now. It was only available to some testers before, but it seems that I now have the privilege of testing this out. Unfortunately, it only works with the standard GMail, not Google for Domains (as of yet) so I am using my old GMail account to do the retrieval from my POP account. Fortunately, Google automatically forwards emails that are fetched to my @trajano.net account. Re: Yahoo mail, as you know Yahoo does not offer POP access to their servers without paying for it. There are many ways of getting around that using POP to Web Mail servers. The one I am using is FreePOPS and GMail's POP fetcher works nicely with it. Also when you have to use Hotmail you may need to get a new version of the hotmail.lua file to retrieve it. Since I don't really have a powerful server with a lot of bandwidth to spare, I only let my friends use my FreePOPS server. However, it is not too difficult to set one up. Although if you are using FreeBSD, you may have some issues since the guy hasn't updated the port for FreePOPs for a long while. I've written some tips on getting FreePOPS to work in FreeBSD if anyone needs it.

FreePOPs working again

Adrenaline still pumping from Wii Sports. I patched up the port for FreePOPs in FreeBSD and got it working with the latest version so now I can download from Yahoo Mail (non-beta). I should've updated this sooner, the changes I did to the port disappeared with the next cvsup. Anyway I am going to see if I can recall. First thing I did was modify the Makefile to update the PORTVERSION to 0.0.99 then I copied the entries in the distinfo file to contain freepops-0.0.99.tar.gz rather than the old version. Once I ran make as expected it would've failed on the size and then md5, I used the md5 program to calculate the new MD5 value. I took out the SHA256 since it didn't seem to require it on FreeBSD 4.11. Once I ran it, I ran into problems with some missing .lua files. Basically just run freepopsd without any service. I found the files in /usr/ports/mail/freepops/work/freepops-0.0.99/modules/include and copied them over. You just need the ones in the directories, just copy the directories browser, lxp and soap including the directory over to /usr/local/share/freepops/lua.

Pushing the P133 with FreePOPs

Well today I decided to take out the YahooPOPs program from my desktop. Not that its a bad program but it is still something that takes up resources (no matter how few) on my PC which I didn't like. I moved it out to the P133 as FreePOPs. As usual, installation on FreeBSD is easy the only problem is that it didn't have an rc.d entry made for it, so I had to write one up myself. And after RTFM, I found out that the port used was 2000 not 110 as I expected, oh well, live and learn. I'm still looking for someone with old DIMM memory for the P133 that they want to get rid of.