Introducing Applications in Yahoo! Mail

Now you can create applications for the new Yahoo! Mail that can drive traffic back to your site and increase engagement with your services.

How Does It Work?

Applications for Yahoo! Mail are built within the Yahoo! Application Platform, where you can build, test, and submit applications for publishing. Yahoo! Mail is currently in a limited beta version and only open to confirmed partners. In the coming months, we will expand access to include a larger group of developers.

With the Yahoo! Mail Web Service APIs, you can build applications to perform tasks such as listing messages, displaying folders, and composing and sending messages.

The Yahoo! Mail Web Service offers two different ways to communicate: SOAP and JSON-RPC. The best choice depends on the programming language you intend to use to develop your application. Not all languages that support SOAP are compatible with the Yahoo! Mail Web Service, but all languages that support JSON-RPC are compatible with the Yahoo! Mail Web Service.

Technology Test Results:

Code Samples

• C#
  Requires the Yahoo! Mail WSDL.
• Java - JAX-WS or Axis2
  Requires the Axis2 SOAP library or the JAX-WS library, and the Yahoo! Mail WSDL listed above.
• Perl
  Perl class with test cases for Y! Mail and Y! Photos.
• PHP
  PHP4 and PHP5 classes with test cases for Y! Mail and Y! Photos.
• Python
  Python class with test cases for Y! Mail and Y! Photos.

1. Yahoo! Mail WSDL.
2. Yahoo! Mail Web Service

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