Fw: Jim Bell's Email crash

[Eric Mill]

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 at nrk.com> 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: xxx at yahoo.com
> SSL/TLS
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> Then I can just transfer messages to another IMAP account.
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