Posted by Manuel Lemos on 02/11/06 04:16

Hello,
on 02/10/2006 10:37 PM Bernie Woodham said the following:
> Hello. I have about 10 - 12 different e-mail accounts with Yahoo!, Hotmail
> and other services. I use these to store sensitive information, letters and
> documents. These accounts must be logged into at least once every 30 days
> otherwise the service will terminate the e-mail account and delete any
> contents stored there. There have been times where I failed to log into an
> account and lost important letters.
>
> So, I'm wondering if there is a PHP script that a person could use on a
> website that would log into these accounts once every 2 weeks and maybe do
> something like delete any items in the bulk folder and log out again.

You may want to try this HTTP client class. It can emulate a browser
submitting forms, collect cookies, handle redirection, which is usually
what is needed to login in a site like Yahoo:

http://www.phpclasses.org/httpclient

In that class discussion forum there is even a thread about how to login
in Yahoo. There is an user that came up with a solution.

http://www.phpclasses.org/discuss/package/3/thread/11/



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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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