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Yahoo Mail API

From their site: With the Yahoo! Mail Web Service APIs, you can build applications to perform tasks such as listing messages, displaying folders, and composing and sending messages. Yahoo! Mail offers an incentive for developers to build applications using the full functionality available for premium Yahoo! Mail accounts. Specifically, Yahoo! Mail provides a commission of $10.00 for every new Yahoo! Mail Plus account referred by developers.

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Yahoo Mail: Highlights

Summary
Web based email system
Category
Email
Tags
Protocols
SOAP, JSON-RPC
Data Formats
XML, JSON
API home
http://developer.yahoo.com/mail/ 
This is 1 of
38 APIs by Yahoo

Yahoo Mail: Specifications

Functionality

API Groups
 
Example API Methods
CreateFolder, GetMessage, SaveMessage  
Client Install Required
No  
Service Endpoint
http://mail.yahooapis.com/ws/mail/v1.1/
WSDL
http://mail.yahooapis.com/ws/mail/v1.1/wsdl

Signup and Licensing

Signup Requirements
Developer Key and Yahoo Account  
Developer Key Required
Yes  
Account Required
Yes  
Commercial Licensing
Yes  
Provider
yahoo.com  
Company
Yahoo  
Non-Commercial Lic.
Yes  
Data Licensing
 
Usage Fees
Some API calls are only available to end users with Premium Accounts  
Usage Limits
Users with Free email accounts have limited access 
Terms of Service
 

Security

Authentication Model
YahooBBAuth 
SSL Support
No 
Read-only Without Login
No 

Support

Vendor API Kits
PHP, .NET, Perl, Python, Java 
Community API Kits
 
API Blog
Yahoo Developer Network Blog 
Site Blog
 
API Forum
tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-mail/ 
Developer Support
Suggestion Board 

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