Thank you.

Did you figure anything out?I have the same problem

Hi Ram,

What does the "folder=1" part of that query do? What I need to do is:

• Pull the last 30 days of email from all folders
• Then periodically pull any new emails in all folders that have come in since the last pull

Is there a way to acheive that with this query?

Thanks,Aubrey

Hi Ram,

Is there a way to request other message headers (not included to the envelope) through YQL?

Thanks in advance.

Looks like the forum has a problem and it striped what i typed in the keyword section and doesn't seem to even help with the linking. Try this and see if it works.

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/#h=select%20*%20from%20ymail.search%20where%20keyword%3D%27folder%3A1%27

Hi Ram, that doesn't seem to solve my problem, since I don't want to search by keyword. I tried your suggestion with an empty keyword and it returns no results.

What I'm trying to do is pull the complete envelope data (timestamp, and all to/from/cc/bcc addresses) for all of a user's emails in the past three months. I've run into a number of problems in trying to do that, including:

• On the webservice API, GetMessageRawHeader is very slow, as described in my message above.
• Other endpoints on the webservice API like ListMessages return MessageInfo objects that don't include the full envelope data. They only contain to and from, and from often contains a name rather than an address.
• Using the YQL API, I tried pulling the data through ymail.msgcontent, and while that includes the data I need it quickly hits what looks like rate limiting but isn't labeled as such. The documents simply come back with no results. When this happens, I've noticed that the webservice API starts returning HTML indicating a temporary problem on your end.

Hi Ram, that doesn't seem to solve my problem, since I don't want to search by keyword. I tried your suggestion with an empty keyword and it returns no results.

What I'm trying to do is pull the complete envelope data (timestamp, and all to/from/cc/bcc addresses) for all of a user's emails in the past three months. I've run into a number of problems in trying to do that, including:

• On the webservice API, GetMessageRawHeader is very slow, as described in my message above.
• Other endpoints on the webservice API like ListMessages return MessageInfo objects that don't include the full envelope data. They only contain to and from, and from often contains a name rather than an address.
• Using the YQL API, I tried pulling the data through ymail.msgcontent, and while that includes the data I need it quickly hits what looks like rate limiting but isn't labeled as such. The documents simply come back with no results. When this happens, I've noticed that the webservice API starts returning HTML indicating a temporary problem on your end.

Take a look at a sample code https://github.com/ramiyer/SaveMessageYmailAPI.git which will save a message with attachment and also downloads it.

I meant you can go to the yql console and type select * from ymail.search where keyword=' '

Can you tell what all queries you tried? You can use "keyword" search. You can do something like this' for messages in Inbox.

I do understand and agree to most of the points. Few things

1. We recommend JsonRPC
2. We are currently only supporting OAuth for Web Apis and it should work pretty much how any RPC or Rest entry point should work and the sample app is just what it literally means "a sample". It is not an SDK or a starting point to write an app on Ymail APIs. The only thing it helps is it tells how your json should look like when you send it to the server which is in the README

If you have any API related question please post in the forum and someone should respond to it.

You should contact the Messenger team at help.yahoo.com. We can not help you. This is a developer blog.

My problem is exactly the same as Susan's (March 29,2013). I don't know if she got an answer. I hope I do.

I've spent the past week and a half trying to implement a C# service that accesses user email accounts using OAuth to pull receipts from the account so that we do not have to store user email accounts. I was able to use OAuth to access Gmail accounts quite easily because they allow IMAP access so I can use pretty much any IMAP library to handle all of the authorization and calls. Took a day, maybe two to make a finished product.

Now onto Yahoo, I realized that I could not access the account using IMAP (why? that would make life so much easier) so I would have to use the API. That's ok, the Yahoo Mail API appears to be well documented! Looks like they recommend using SOAP as all of the example requests and responses are SOAP objects. Oh no, they deprecated the SOAP endpoint a year ago! Good thing I read the one tiny line in the "Getting Started" page that mentions that the SOAP endpoint was deprecated. Seeing as to how EVERY SINGLE EXAMPLE IS IN SOAP I would have had no idea. Maybe this forum would help, nope the only help as to how to use the JSON endpoint is one post with a link to some guys GitHub (https://github.com/ramiyer/YahooMailApiSample) with a Java App that runs requests.

In order to figure out how to use this API I had to debug the Java App, using trial and error to generate valid requests. The descriptions of the request parameters are actually quite vague and often misrepresent what can be used for a parameter, FYI XML (SOAP) does not always translate directly into JSON, in fact there are several cases that they do not. I then had to step through the code so I can see the values of certain variables at different states and to access the responses to figure out how to process them in my C# service. This took about a week... And also very there is very little documenting how to use OAuth to authorize the requests. That is a whole other task. If you're going to make the process of using this API difficult, you should make libraries for some of the major libraries to help people use your service.

Sorry for this rant that pretty much lacked any questions. I think it would really help your users out if you were to write out documentation on the JSON endpoint with example requests and responses, as well as some help with using OAuth in the requests. It took me way longer than it should have just to get a working prototype together. I expected much better from you Yahoo...

Any chance of getting some help here?

In another thread this question was posted. The poster got it working, but did not post the solution.

I am able to download mail messages using oauth in C# without any issues. However for the mail message downloading attachments is not working. I do have valid OAuth tokens and also valid mid, fid and pid.

I have tried two methods to download attachments1. Using Json endpoint - i get 500 error2. Using http get - i get 404 error

Has anyone been able to get this to ever work? highly frustrating.

same problem here. If i use json-endpoint i get 500 error

if i use http get i get 404 error. yahoo mail api document is one of the worst. its been 2 years since some body got it to work, they still have no code samples for c#

prod1.rest-notify.msg.yahoo.comI get this and it asks for a username and passwork. I have tried every pw and suser name I have ever had ans still nothing. A 409 message that says I do not have authorization to enter the webpage appears. I am so frustrated. What should i DO???

can someone give me an example of the json-rpc example of the savemessage http://developer.yahoo.com/mail/docs/user_guide/SaveMessage.html

hi! how are you doing

Is there any "official" tutorial about how to get the contact list of the logged in user. My customer wants me to implement the yahoo contact list getter. The user will log in and mark his/her friends. Invitation email will be sent to his/her friends.

I got the yahoo application key, secret etc but couldn't succeeded. I followed a tutorial but it seems the token is changing everytime I refresh a page. I got some "libraries" for yahoo oauth and for that thing but I didn't downloaded them from yahoo officially.

Also by the way where is yahoo email/application api link on the site: http://developer.yahoo.com/

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I have not found any way to send a Humanverification-ImageUrl and Answer response via the JSON endpoint.

Since SOAP is deprecated (years ago?) this should really be documented.

Anyone have any ideas? I've tried passing the response as additional headers with no luck.

Example:

X-HumanVerification-ImageUrl: http://yahoo.com/somecaptchaimageurl.jpgX-Humanverification-Answer: t63f5h

That didnt work..

hello! I need assistance to my yahoo account i know my password but yahoo ask my secret question unfortunately i forgot the answer then yahoo ask my mobile number to sending code but i lost my phone someone stolen it and i forgot the answer in my secret question. how can i do my account is important to me i need it to communicating to my beloved family?? please help me to access it or retrieve my account is maricel.llapitan@yahoo.com

hi I want to see my emails in my .net web application how can i do ??

I get this as well and can't open any attachments - why ?

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Each time i sign in mails just can't display?

thnks