My pet LibYMail project

In recent months I've been working on a pet project - a .NET 2.0 library which encapsulates Yahoo! Mail's SOAP web service with an object oriented design. Instead of working with a flat list of methods, developers can work with objects like Account, Folder, YMessage and so on, all organized with conventions familiar to every .NET developer.

Since the Yahoo! user authentication method requires redirecting from the web application to a Yahoo login page, and then back to the web application, the web service can only be used in a web application - you can't use it for a desktop client (unless you do the authentication behind the scenes with your own proxy, which is against Yahoo's terms of use). LibYMail is no different - you must provide it with the credentials provided by Yahoo in order to work.

This kind of library can help developers of ASP.NET applications, who want to display information from their users e-mail account on their pages. For example, a message count, or message headers, or even message content, if the user has a premium account at Yahoo. The library will retrieve this information for you, and save you the time of following message ID's, folder ID's, and matching messages to folders, and other complications.

It is currently still in early development, as I only worked on it on my spare time, but most of the message-related methods are now working. I am still working on getting the user preferences, so at this time you can't tell if the user has a premium account (which is required for some of the methods), but the code in SVN has more functionality. It is, however, not tested yet.

So get it now at libymail.sourceforge.net.