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Episode: 1571
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Title: HPR1571: Yahoo Mail Forwarder
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1571/hpr1571.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 05:11:36
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Hey, this is Tojette, calling in for another installment on HackerPublic.com.
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My first installment was a few months ago about building a Android device that was pretty much
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Google-free. As a quick update on that, I've been running that tablet now for a while without
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issue and I went ahead and took my Nexus 7 and did the similar thing to the Nexus 7.
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I now have a Nexus 7 that I use regularly that has no Google account and it works fine.
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A lot of the apps I'm using are being used from F-Groid, which is a nice open source repository
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that doesn't require account. Well, in that podcast, I had also
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mentioned the fact that I had a couple other things configured and one of them was consolidating
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my mail. One of the applications I was doing there was a mail folder for Yahoo.
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I had gone through an effort of trying to consolidate emails. Most of you probably have about
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a dozen different emails and for the longest time, my routine was to check this one,
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check that one, check the other one, and it's been half a day just checking your email.
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Didn't like that, so I started consolidating. I had my own personal server,
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which I liked and I controlled things on, so I set up stuff on my personal server with the
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email account I like. I took my Gmail account forwarded over, that was nice and easy.
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I took a lot of my other accounts that I had and I set up folders on them to go in there,
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but I could not do that with Yahoo. But I did find that when I was using Thunderbird,
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that Thunderbird, you can go ahead and open up and deal with my Yahoo account on as if it was
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a local mail account. I thought, hmm, this seems nice. I wonder if I could do something with this
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to make them more useful. So, here's what I ended up doing. I built a virtual machine that
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takes my Yahoo mail and we'll grab that, put it into my personal account, and so then I only
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have to deal with my personal account, and even though it's getting mail from all the different places.
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This is a nice solution, it's nice and simple, but I wanted something that was going to be
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forget about it. I don't like messing with stuff all the time. I wanted to mess with it once,
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get it up and running, and then forget about it. So, here's how the virtual machine was built.
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To build it, you're going to need a couple of basic things. Your Yahoo account,
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your second email account, the second email account that you're forwarding things to,
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must have iMap access. You'll need your virtual server to host this. You will need a virtual box
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installed on your local machine to build the image for it, and you'll need an ISO file for
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the Linux distro you're going to use. In this case, I was using the LXDE version of
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Fedora20. Start out with, build a basic virtual machine. Go ahead and configure the new virtual
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machine. Told it was Fedora, gave it half a gig of RAM. I had plenty of memory on my storage,
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but I figured it's not going to need much memory. So, half a gig was sufficient. I gave it a 20 gig
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hard drive dynamic, so it will expand to whatever size it's needed. If you want to make it bigger,
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find that's entirely up to you, and build the basic machine. Once that's done, I start out my virtual
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machine, log in. Being a good person, I go ahead and do all the updates that I'm supposed to do
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on there, get everything up today, and then I install Thunderbird. Once Thunderbirds installed,
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you go in and configure two male accounts, the first one being your Yahoo male account,
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and when you're configuring your Yahoo male account, it'll give you the option of
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pop access or iMap access. Choose the iMap access. That's important. Otherwise, what will happen if
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it's pop access? It'll be deleting stuff or moving stuff over, but leaving copies there on the
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Yahoo side. When that one's done, you configure your second account. The second account is going to be
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iMap access as well. Great, you've got Thunderbird running now, then your virtual machine, you've got
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two female accounts configured, and you need to create a rule. What I did is I didn't want all the
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messages from my Yahoo account just being jammed into the main folder with my regular account.
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So under my secondary account there, I created a subfolder under the inbox called Yahoo.
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I then set up a rule from Yahoo that says any new message that comes in,
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automatically move it into the Yahoo folder of my secondary account.
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Told it to run immediately after I was done, and it took all my current male and Yahoo,
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and it moved it into my iMap account under my secondary account, and it took it a while to run,
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because it's taken all those emails. Yes, those ones you forgot about that were still sitting in
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there. All those emails and move them over into the Yahoo folder. Great, we got a running system,
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but we want this to be automated and not have to worry about it.
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I then go through and configure the LXT automatically run Thunderbird on startup.
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I also configured the user account that I'm using for this to have no password. Yes,
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no password, no, no, no, no, no, freak out. This is a virtual machine that's running on a
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private network that has no internal access from any place. It's hosted on my virtual server,
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but it's netted on there. It doesn't even, it isn't even directly accessible from other
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machines on my own network, only from the server. So I figured password security is not that important.
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Configured the Thunderbird or those automatically start up when it boots up,
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and then I decided I don't want to have to do patches and updates for this. I just want to
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forget about this. So I set up a cron job with two different tasks. The first task is a cron job
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on Sunday mornings at midnight that goes ahead and does all current updates from the repository.
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The second update is an hour later and what that does is a reboot some machine because there may
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have been a hurdle to update or something else in there. I thought about getting fancy to try to
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determine whether I needed to reboot or not, but it's like me. I don't want to worry about it,
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and this is a simple machine. Great. So my machines configured to auto-boot, auto-log in, my user,
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it's automatically running Thunderbird on startup, and it's got all its maintenance there. I shut
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the machine down, boot it back up again, just to make sure everything's working good. I've got it
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done right. Now shut it down. I'm still on my desktop. I export that virtual image I just
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built, which also gives me a backup copy in case something goes wrong. I take that virtual image
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I just built, exported to an OVF file. The OVF file is copied over to the server and then imported
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into the PHP VirtualBox running on the server. Now that it's up and running on PHP VirtualBox,
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I start off the application and it just runs. I forget about it. Don't have to worry about it
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anymore. You'll know it's working because it will take all your Yahoo mails as they're coming in
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as soon as it detects them and moves them over so they'll automatically appear in your radar count.
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There may be a little bit of buffer delay, but I was finding that Yahoo was already buffering things
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and I did sometimes have to wait a couple hours for email coming in. That's why I put using that as
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a primary. You now have a working machine with everything that you need on there. I've got more
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details of the actual steps with some step-by-step walkthrough on it on my website at james.tobusacademy.com.
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That's J-A-M-E-S-D-O-E-B-E-S-A-C-A-D-E-M-Y.com. Go there, check it out. Check out some of the other
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things I've posted there as well. I've got a few other things I want to put in future episodes and
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would love feedback if anybody finds these useful or not. Thanks. Bye. Hey, please excuse some of
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the quality of the recording it was done while I was driving, finally getting a chance to get it done.
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Also, I wanted to note that there is an issue I was having with the
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mail for it or if anybody has a suggestion on how to resolve it. The problem running into is
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sometimes when it starts up, it'll grab everything that's in the spam folder and go ahead and
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forward it over to the new folder. It doesn't happen all the time and it's not consistent, but if
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somebody's got some ideas on that, let me know. Thanks.
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