Download the compiled Yahoopops - Thanks Q3Q for sharing!

[charlar]

Hi q3q, I'm posting the whole terminal session (took me a while to actually read the number under PID, but I eventually came to my senses ) Hope that this signifies something. Something about permissions in the last line but I can only guess that much.
P.S. Currently the port is set at 110 but I also tried it with 5058.

1120:~ caglaronder$ ps
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
420 std S 0:00.05 -bash
418 p2- S 0:00.02 /usr/local/bin/ypops.bin
1120:~ caglaronder$ kill nnnn
-bash: kill: nnnn: no such pid
1120:~ caglaronder$ kill p2
-bash: kill: p2: no such pid
1120:~ caglaronder$ kill p2- S
-bash: kill: p2-: no such pid
-bash: kill: S: no such pid
1120:~ caglaronder$ kill 418
1120:~ caglaronder$ /usr/local/bin/ypops
1120:~ caglaronder$ [ Fri Dec 17 00:05:29 2004 ] =========================================================================
[ Fri Dec 17 00:05:29 2004 ] Configuration:
[ Fri Dec 17 00:05:29 2004 ] Log Mode = Advanced
[ Fri Dec 17 00:05:29 2004 ] MD5 = 0, Secure Mode = 1
[ Fri Dec 17 00:05:29 2004 ] Use Proxy = 0, HTTP Proxy = xxxx.yyy.zzz:8080, HTTPS Proxy = xxxx.yyy.zzz:8080
[ Fri Dec 17 00:05:29 2004 ] Max Emails = 10, Leave as unread = 0
[ Fri Dec 17 00:05:29 2004 ] Emtpy Trash = 0, Empty Bulk = 0
[ Fri Dec 17 00:05:29 2004 ] Download Inbox = 1, Download BulkMail = 0
[ Fri Dec 17 00:05:29 2004 ] Email Category = All
[ Fri Dec 17 00:05:29 2004 ] Proxy Auth = 0, Username = "", Password = <HIDDEN>
[ Fri Dec 17 00:05:29 2004 ] Quiet Mode = 0, Autostart = 0, Always on Top = 0
[ Fri Dec 17 00:05:29 2004 ] Network IP = , POP3 Port = 110, SMTP Enable = 1, SMTP Port = 5059
[ Fri Dec 17 00:05:29 2004 ] Save Sent Email = 1, Enable UIDL = 1, Ignore Exact Size = 1, Hide Tray Icon = 0
[ Fri Dec 17 00:05:29 2004 ] Cookie Timeout = 24000
[ Fri Dec 17 00:05:29 2004 ] User Agent = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
[ Fri Dec 17 00:05:29 2004 ] =========================================================================
Unable to bind.Error reason = Permission denied

[Q3Q]

[.....]
Something about permissions in the last line but I can only guess that much.
[.....]
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Unable to bind.Error reason = Permission denied

Thank you for providing the feedback. I think it is significant for the investigation of the problem.

Could you execute the following command in a terminal window? The command is to list the attributes of the files.

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ls -laF /usr/local/bin/ypops*

Please post the output of the command here. It should look like a couple of lines of

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 3295296 31 Oct 12:04 /usr/local/bin/ypops.bin*

However, yours may not have 'root' or 'admin', but something else. These are the clues we are looking for.

[charlar]

The information is as follows:

1120:~ caglaronder$ ls -laF /usr/local/bin/ypops*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 77 16 Dec 08:38 /usr/local/bin/ypops*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3295296 16 Dec 08:38 /usr/local/bin/ypops.bin*
1120:~ caglaronder$

[Q3Q]

charlar,

Your terminal output of 'ls -laF' actually looks OK. My unix knowledge is not skill enough to judge the difference between 'admin' group and 'wheel' group. I change my /usr/local/bin/ypops and /usr/local/bin/ypops.bin from 'admin' group into 'wheel' group and it still works. No such permission error message. That is, I cannot figure out what goes wrong for you to yield such error message "cannot bind".

The command to change owner and group is:

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sudo chown root:admin /usr/local/bin/ypops
sudo chown root:admin /usr/local/bin/ypops.bin


if you think changing yours to 'admin' group will do any good.

I just tried one more thing on my Mac and I duplicated the error message "Unable to bind.Error reason = Permission denied." What I did is to set "YAHOOPOPS_PORTNUMBER 110" in /usr/local/share/ypopsrc, as you did. If I change it back to the original value 5058, then no error occurs. Remember that you have to terminate ypops.bin and re-launch ypops to make the change effective. Are you sure you saw the same error when you set it to port 5058 in ypopsrc?

The information is as follows:

1120:~ caglaronder$ ls -laF /usr/local/bin/ypops*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 77 16 Dec 08:38 /usr/local/bin/ypops*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3295296 16 Dec 08:38 /usr/local/bin/ypops.bin*
1120:~ caglaronder$

[charlar]

Hi again q3q,

I tried the things you said, then I got frustrated and decided to do a clean install over from the start. I manually created the directories and copied the files from the terminal. Then I did the "ps" and kill "pid number" I dont know what it was I did before, but from this install I did not get the "unable to bind" message. So I guess I finally got the mail program to at least communicate with ypops. Here is the session:

Caglar-Onders-Computer:~ caglaronder$ ps
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
442 std- S 0:00.02 /usr/local/bin/ypops.bin
3333 std S 0:00.04 -bash
Caglar-Onders-Computer:~ caglaronder$ kill 442
Caglar-Onders-Computer:~ caglaronder$ /usr/local/bin/ypops
Caglar-Onders-Computer:~ caglaronder$ [ Sat Dec 18 00:44:59 2004 ] =========================================================================
[ Sat Dec 18 00:44:59 2004 ] Configuration:
[ Sat Dec 18 00:44:59 2004 ] Log Mode = Advanced
[ Sat Dec 18 00:44:59 2004 ] MD5 = 0, Secure Mode = 1
[ Sat Dec 18 00:44:59 2004 ] Use Proxy = 0, HTTP Proxy = xxxx.yyy.zzz:8080, HTTPS Proxy = xxxx.yyy.zzz:8080
[ Sat Dec 18 00:44:59 2004 ] Max Emails = 10, Leave as unread = 0
[ Sat Dec 18 00:44:59 2004 ] Emtpy Trash = 1, Empty Bulk = 0
[ Sat Dec 18 00:44:59 2004 ] Download Inbox = 1, Download BulkMail = 0
[ Sat Dec 18 00:44:59 2004 ] Email Category = All
[ Sat Dec 18 00:44:59 2004 ] Proxy Auth = 0, Username = "", Password = <HIDDEN>
[ Sat Dec 18 00:44:59 2004 ] Quiet Mode = 0, Autostart = 0, Always on Top = 0
[ Sat Dec 18 00:44:59 2004 ] Network IP = , POP3 Port = 5058, SMTP Enable = 1, SMTP Port = 5059
[ Sat Dec 18 00:44:59 2004 ] Save Sent Email = 1, Enable UIDL = 1, Ignore Exact Size = 1, Hide Tray Icon = 0
[ Sat Dec 18 00:44:59 2004 ] Cookie Timeout = 24000
[ Sat Dec 18 00:44:59 2004 ] User Agent = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
[ Sat Dec 18 00:44:59 2004 ] =========================================================================
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:37 2004 ] =========================================================================
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:37 2004 ] Configuration:
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:37 2004 ] Log Mode = Advanced
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:37 2004 ] MD5 = 0, Secure Mode = 1
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:37 2004 ] Use Proxy = 0, HTTP Proxy = xxxx.yyy.zzz:8080, HTTPS Proxy = xxxx.yyy.zzz:8080
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:37 2004 ] Max Emails = 10, Leave as unread = 0
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:37 2004 ] Emtpy Trash = 1, Empty Bulk = 0
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:37 2004 ] Download Inbox = 1, Download BulkMail = 0
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:37 2004 ] Email Category = All
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:37 2004 ] Proxy Auth = 0, Username = "", Password = <HIDDEN>
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:37 2004 ] Quiet Mode = 0, Autostart = 0, Always on Top = 0
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:37 2004 ] Network IP = , POP3 Port = 5058, SMTP Enable = 1, SMTP Port = 5059
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:37 2004 ] Save Sent Email = 1, Enable UIDL = 1, Ignore Exact Size = 1, Hide Tray Icon = 0
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:37 2004 ] Cookie Timeout = 24000
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:37 2004 ] User Agent = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:37 2004 ] =========================================================================
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:37 2004 ] Starting POP3 session for "cagond".
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:37 2004 ] <cagond> Password received from client.
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:37 2004 ] <cagond> Creating a new session
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:37 2004 ] <cagond> Connecting to Yahoo...
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:42 2004 ] Content-Type = text/html
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:42 2004 ] <cagond> Connected to us.f517.mail.yahoo.com.
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:42 2004 ] <cagond> Could not extract crumb from empty-trash link
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:42 2004 ] <cagond> Login to Yahoo Mail succeeded.
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:42 2004 ] <cagond> Analyzing the INBOX folder
[ Sat Dec 18 00:45:44 2004 ] Content-Type = text/html


One more thing. The first time I tried to get mail from apple mail, it did not play the alert sound and had some activity going (which is the session above I guess).. Then when I tried again, I got the:

There may be a problem with the mail server or network. Check the settings for account “yahoo” or try again.

The server error encountered was: The attempt to read data from the server “localhost” failed.

[charlar]

I found out one more thing. After the mail app starts using ypops, ypops terminates (I think) because when I enter "ps" in the terminal, ypops does not show to be running.

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[ Sat Dec 18 01:23:29 2004 ] Starting POP3 session for "cagond".
[ Sat Dec 18 01:23:29 2004 ] <cagond> Password received from client.
[ Sat Dec 18 01:23:29 2004 ] <cagond> Creating a new session
[ Sat Dec 18 01:23:29 2004 ] <cagond> Connecting to Yahoo...
[ Sat Dec 18 01:23:34 2004 ] Content-Type = text/html
[ Sat Dec 18 01:23:34 2004 ] <cagond> Connected to us.f517.mail.yahoo.com.
[ Sat Dec 18 01:23:34 2004 ] <cagond> Could not extract crumb from empty-trash link
[ Sat Dec 18 01:23:34 2004 ] <cagond> Login to Yahoo Mail succeeded.
[ Sat Dec 18 01:23:34 2004 ] <cagond> Analyzing the INBOX folder
[ Sat Dec 18 01:23:36 2004 ] Content-Type = text/html

Caglar-Onders-Computer:/usr/local/share caglaronder$ ps
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
3403 std S 0:00.15 -bash
Caglar-Onders-Computer:/usr/local/share caglaronder$

[Q3Q]

charlar,

glad to know ypops is running now. Your present problem seems to be the ypops funcionality, rather than Mac specific issues.

Anyhow, this may be a bug of ypops 0.6. My experience tells me that it may be related to a particlar mail in your yahoo mail box. In the first few mails in your yahoo mail box, is there any mail with huge attachment? It maybe get ypops crashed. Just a guess.

[edmoncu]

hi. after attempting to check for mails, i happened to see this message...

Connection Failed
There may be a problem with the mail server or
network. Check the settings for account
"[email protected]" or try again.

The server error encountered was: The attempt to
read data from the server "localhost" failed.

this is while yahoopops is already running. although i already set the proper settings at my mail's email account including pop3 addresses, login info as well as port numbers...

i have a question though...
under yahopops windows, the email client requires that the login name for the mail account for yahoopops shouldn't be simply "username", it should be "[email protected]" instead...

under osx yahoopops, i was wondering, should i enter the the username as "username" only? this is what i read at the settings on the documentation.

thanks very much for bearing with me here.

[Q3Q]

i have a question though...
under yahopops windows, the email client requires that the login name for the mail account for yahoopops shouldn't be simply "username", it should be "[email protected]" instead...

under osx yahoopops, i was wondering, should i enter the the username as "username" only? this is what i read at the settings on the documentation.

edmoncu,

yes, username in Mail.app preferences : account setting requires only "username," not "[email protected]". You enter "[email protected]" (without quote) in e-mail address field.

[charlar]

q3q,

Exactly like you said... I copied all but a few mails to a new folder in yahoo and marked the few that I left in inbox as unnread... and it finally worked. It must have been because of a large attachment like you said or maybe the number of mails in inbox. Anyway that means I have to maintain a tidy inbox until a version which supports the delete function comes out agin, but it works and will be of good use to me. Thank you for all the help and prompt feedback. I hope that helping us solve our problems has provided somewhat useful feedback to you too. Thanks again, hope to see more of your compilatons in future additions.

[Q3Q]

charlar,

congratulation. You don't really neet to keep yahoo mail box as tidy as possible. Once you get all of your accumulated yahoo mails fetched (except a few trouble makers), you don't need to pay too much attention at yahoo mail box. Occasionally, you need to log in to yahoo mail web page to delete mails because present version has its deletion functionality defuncted, or a new trouble maker (with a big attachment, maybe) arrives.

Sometimes, ypops crashes and needs re-launched after Mac's sleeping.

[Aperez]

hey, got here late in the game, but im having trouble with the newest version, with Mozilla Thunderbird. i did everything i could, it was hard to make out specific directions in order with these posts. but im stuck where it says i successfully installed ypops but when i try to retrieve yahoo mail, it says

Could not sonnect to server 'localhost'; connection refused.

i tried both 5058 and 110 ports, so hope you guys are still around and call help. thanks

[khl]

I'm using the precompiled version here, and i followed the instructions to the letter and I get this error message.

The necessary preferences file was not found.Please copy the sample preferences file ypops_samplerc given along with the distribution to /Users/pp as ypopsrc

even after verifying the file is there, and that there is also a matching .ypopsrc file because there is varying information on the documentation.

I've tried the other OSX build and it bombs with gcc 4.0 compiler errors, so I'm kinda dead in the water.

Im running Tiger 10.4.2 and neither version works for me, and I'm kind of out of ideas on how to get this work.

help.