totally off topic email question

[Les Mikesell]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 January 2007 21:15, Roger Taranto wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 18:04, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> So can someone clarify for me, the names of the  pop and smtp servers
>>> at yahoo.  Or how to make t-bird verbose enough to tell us whats
>>> wrong?
>> It looks like you have to pay extra to get POP service to Yahoo Mail. 
>> See: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-10.html
>> "You must subscribe to the Yahoo! Mail Plus service for POP access
>> through your email client."
>>
>> However, it looks like someone wrote a Perl script that might solve your
>> POP problem.  See: http://ypopsemail.com
>>
> Hey, thats slick, thanks.  But me and I allergy to windows strikes again.  
> And that leads me to ask another related question:
> 
> Where does one get a perl interpretor for windows in order to run this 
> script?

You can get pretty much the whole unix-like toolkit at
http://www.cygwin.com or a more specialized-for-windows perl
at http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/?tn=1

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   Les Mikesell
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