Posted by J.O. Aho on 02/02/07 15:50

Ben C wrote:
> On 2007-02-02, J.O. Aho <user@example.net> wrote:
>> Nospam wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> Can you submit formdata with wget? Better to use curl.

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

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//Aho

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