Determine the User's Account Capabilities

The Yahoo! Mail Web Service offers the following scopes based on the consumer keys used.

Scopes

  • There are three scopes available:
    • Summary information
    • Read-only full-message access
    • Read/write full-message access
  • The following table categorizes the APIs according to scope.

    Table 1.1. 

    Summary information

    		 Read-only full-message access Read/write full-message access
    BatchExecute, ListFolders, ListMessages, ListMessagesFromIds, SearchMessages, GetMessageRawHeader, GetUserData, GetMessage, DownloadAttachment, SetUserData + Summary information CreateFolder, RenameFolder, EmptyFolder, RemoveFolder, MoveMessages, DeleteMessages, FlagMessages, SendMessage, SaveMessage, SaveRawMessage, UploadAttachment, + Read-only full-message access


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