Cannot connect to mail.yahooapis.com

[lycidas]

Yesterday, I was getting invalid credentials when accessing e-mails and today i'm getting this error when trying to send an e-mail

[Chris Wood]

Hi there,

Sorry, I can't see an error message. Can you repost it?

Chris

[Larry Spellman]

I'm getting the same (or similar) error trying to upload attachments to Yahoo Mail.   The error msg is "The remote name could not be resolved 'mail.yahooapis.com'

This error started showing up in the past week.  I've uninstalled Affixa and reinstalled the latest version.   Still get the error.

Larry

[lycidas]

[Chris Wood]

Hi there,

Thanks for your replies. I've now had a chance to look things over and I'm afraid the news isn't good.

It would appear that Yahoo! have discontinued their Mail API. This is the thing that Affixa uses to create drafts or send emails. Without it, there's nothing we can do...

It appears that a new API is forthcoming in "early 2015", but that it's not yet available. Until it does become available, it basically means that we're unable to support Yahoo! Mail accounts any more.

More details can be found here:

https://developer.yahoo.com/mail/

We've been in touch with Yahoo! to investigate this further and we'll update everyone if and when things change.

In the meantime, we'll remove any marketing pertaining to Yahoo! Mail from our web site over the next 24 hours. If you've purchased a subscription from us and no longer require it, upon request we will credit you for the remaining days of your subscription (post 16 February 2015) and will arrange providing a refund to you. Please contact us using the following link and provide your subscription number:

https://www.affixa.com/desktop/contact-us/

We're really very sorry about this. We find it sad since the Affixa adventure actually started with Yahoo! Mail back in 2009 and it was only later that we started supporting other webmail systems. We hope to bring it back as soon as we can once Yahoo! releases their new API.

With sincerest apologies and best wishes,

Chris

[Larry Spellman]

Thanks, Chris.   I'm sorry to hear that Yahoo has done this; as you obviously are too.   Hopefully a new Yahoo API that Affixa can use will be forthcoming.

Thanks for all your work on Affixa support; much appreciated!

Larry