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 <wb8foz@nrk.com> wrote:
On 1/30/14 2:20 PM, jim bell wrote:

(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.)


IMAP.

I have IMAP set up on my Yahoo account:

Server: imap.mail.yahoo.com
Port: 993
Username: xxx@yahoo.com
SSL/TLS


Then I can just transfer messages to another IMAP account.









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