How to export all Yahoo emails using PHP

Question

Can anyone tell me what the best way to export about 90K emails off of a Yahoo account? The way it stands now, I believe that every email would need to be extracted one by one. I'd like to write a program to do this for me. Can someone give me any ideas as to the best way to so this?

What I am after are the sender email addresses (that are not already in my "contacts") so that I can use them in a list manager.

Answer 1

I've done similar tasks with gmail using their IMAP interface and PHP's IMAP package.

Here is the docs: http://php.net/manual/en/book.imap.php

I believe Yahoo Mail also supports IMAP...

Answer 2

I believe Yahoo mail supports IMAP, which would be by far the best way to access the sender name for all your emails. It also looks like PHP has an imap module which will make this easier.

All you have to do is plug the pieces together. :)

Answer 3

I would suggest using POP3 access to retrieve your mail. IMAP will be ideal, but not sure if all Yahoo accounts have IMAP access.

You probably do not need to do it programmatically if you just want to archive them.

E.g.: How do I archive messages?