need help in sockets

hotmail,yahoo,gmail sockets

[egypty]

hello all
i need the socket for yahoo,gmail and yahoo to provide my programmer with this info to make a script that connect to any email to grab contacts and send an email to them like hi5,myspace
sorry if this was posted in the wrong place

[trillianjedi]

G-mail is pop.gmail.com on port 995

Yahoo! is pop.mail.yahoo.com on port 110

Use "pop server" and "port" in your search rather than "socket" and you should find all the info you need, eg:-

"yahoo pop server port"

As far as I recall, hotmail doesn't do POP but uses an HTTP system instead, so that one will need to be implemented separately.

TJ

[egypty]

i need the server address too and the command query of the contact list

[trillianjedi]

command query of the contact list

You mean you want to get the users address book? I don't think that's possible. I would seriously doubt it anyway (imagine the security implications). You might be able to fake a login session and scrape it, but I wouldn't recommend it. There could be legal issues and I doubt the relevant ISP would be happy about it either!

Server addresses are in my post above, unless I've misunderstood you?

You can get all the server and port info you need with the search I suggested. Most of this information is out in public somewhere.

TJ

[egypty]

mayebe i said it wrong but see this link to understand me

<snip>

try to login into ur email account with this page and tell me what is the information needed to build this script

[edited by: engine at 1:45 pm (utc) on Mar. 6, 2006]
[edit reason] No URL's, thanks. See TOS [webmasterworld.com] [/edit]

[trillianjedi]

Posting your URL is against the TOS [webmasterworld.com] here. Perhaps you can edit your post and remove it.

We don't really need to see the site - we need to understand what you want to do. As I say, if you need to access the users address book, I don't think this is possible (in a legal or ethical manner).

TJ

[egypty]

oh sorry but i cant find edit button
u can remove it but i think u should see it mayebe i cant say it with the right way so example explain the case exactly also i think its legal because alot of ppl use this

[trillianjedi]

Perhaps you can try stating exactly what you want to happen?

lot of ppl

That doesn't make it legal ;-)

What do you want to do with the address book data?

TJ

[egypty]

its like (send to friend) script

lests say u visit a page with nice contents and want to share it with your friends so instead of copy and paste some emails you can send it to your contact list with this script just sign in and press send and thats it

[trillianjedi]

Ah, ok got it. That makes perfect sense. So I hit a button and send something by email to everyone in my address book?

Hmmm... might be scriptable, assuming all of the three webmail services you mention have a "send to everyone in my address book" feature.

I haven't seen such a system and I'm still unsure of it's legality (with the service provider, not the user).

But if those services do have that single click email everyone feature, then your programmer could probably do it for you. He'd need to work through the system once manually to determine what to do in code.

If he can't manage that, you might need to find a new programmer. The questions in your inital post made me think that when I first read it - all of the information he asked you for is readily available without much effort.

TJ

[celgins]

Egypty... are you talking about articles, forum posts, or quizzes? If so, your programmer can search for PHP-based or ASP-based scripts to accomplish this.

The only way a user will be able to "Send This Page To A Friend" while on Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo, GMail, etc., is if those programs have a, "Send This Page To A Friend" button somewhere.

From what I can tell, none of them have that.

Besides, some of the large photo storage companies probably wrote custom scripts that allow users to send their photo-pages to all persons in their email contact lists.