From OMGUbuntu :
Yahoo calendar uses the CalDAV protocol which is supported out of the box in Evolution. Thus setting it up is a cinch.
Open Evolution and go to New > Calendar
Select ‘CalDAV’ as calendar type.
Give the calendar a name – this can be anything you like
In the URL section enter https://caldav.calendar.yahoo.com
Username is your Yahoo! account username (including @yahoo.com)
Once filled in click ‘Browse Server for a calender’
Choose the one you want and then click ‘OK’.
Now your chosen calendar should show up in the calendar section. Note that manual refresh doesn’t work but that the ‘next time you bring Evolution up your events are there.’
Wanna get out of Facebook but still retain your contacts ? Yahoo’s gonna help you for that
From geekosystem.com :
Facebook routinely gets flack for not letting users easily access their contacts’ email addresses in bulk; even their supposedly more user-friendly Download Your Information feature, released in October, doesn’t touch upon it. Plenty of techy types have come up with Greasemonkey scripts and the like to successfully pry email addresses and other personal data from Facebook, which Facebook has in the past argued constitutes a violation of its Terms of Service — never mind that it’s the users’ own data.
Fortunately, there’s a much easier way to mass export Facebook contacts’ email addresses, although it might be counterintuitive to tech geeks for one reason: It requires you to create a Yahoo email address.
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Are you super impatient and can’t wait to see the calendar to be reintegrated in Yahoo Mail beta. Do you wish it was better integrated than just a link ?
The boiling brain of Sy1bzbn has come up with a new concept using another userscript
In the end it looks like this :
Here is a great tip created by sy1bzbn and also published in the Mail Group enabling you to default your Yahoo! Mail in the iPad mode on Windows
Yahoo! s implementation of IMAP is a pretty weird one. IMAP is the ability to synchronize all your personal folders (not just the inbox) on an external client like Outlook, Thunderbird or Apple Mail. At first Apple announced that Yahoo! would offer free IMAP to anyone on the iPhone. Then they released the protocole on BlackBerry and Windows Phone. Recently it was discovered by some genius in the Yahoo! Mail group that IMAP was actually wide opened to anyone should you have a paid or a free account, should you set it up on a mobile device or on your computer, should you be using a 3G or a WiFi connection.
Now before you ask here is how to set it up:
Incoming mail : imap.mail.yahoo.com / SSL
Sending email : smtp.mail.yahoo.com / SSL
Make sure you’re using port 993
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UPDATE : As explain here, when setting up IMAP you’ll see a new folder called Y!Chats which aggregates all your messenger conversations for a more unified communication experience. We believe that this is gonna be implemented as a Yahoo! Mail application in the future
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Now, one problem lies in the push system which means that you receive near-to-live updates as soon a new email message has arrived in your mailbox. The push notification works fine when you set up Yahoo! Mail BUT it only takes into account new email messages that have arrived in the inbox.
In other word, if you have created filters in the Yahoo! Mail options to automatically redirect messages to certain folders, you won’t get any notifications.
So far the only way that I have find to go around this problem is to desactivate all those filters in Yahoo! Mail so that all messages actually reach the inbox. This way I get push notification on my iPhone. However I also have set up my Yahoo account in Mail.app on my Mac and created those rules directly within the software. Now once a week, all I have to do is to actually run Mail.app let it sync my email, select all of them and choose to apply those rules.
Some of my messages will be then be moved to my Yahoo! Mail folders and those modifications will be synchronized online. I like to get my mailbox clean and hopefully Yahoo! will do something about that. By opposition, when setting up a Google account on your iPhone you can actually choose which labels should be directly sync’ed to receive push notifications on your iPhone.
