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Hotmail / Gmail Email address getters
I have seen on some large sites like WAYN, (where are they now) facilities that are used to retrieve all the email address's of a webmail (hotmail,yahoo,gmail) account and then send an email to all thoes retrived addess's.
Does any one know the name of this facility?
or the name of a php script which does this?
I don't really understand what you mean by 'retrieve all the email address's of a webmail account'
do you mean get every account that yahoo has so you can spam them?
if so I doubt most of the spammers get a list, the ones I see look more like they try all variations and bug the ones that are opened. They could also have bought lists.
I think that he wants to have a user provide their Hotmail (for example) login details and then read their address book and send an email to all of the user's contacts.
hmm, saving someone's user/pass is a bad idea, unless it's your own
you could try cURL with your own account but I see a ton of parsing in your future
Sorry for the poor explanation.it is as barns101 explains it.
I have found out they are called contact / address importers
This can be done using an API for communication between your application and their email service.
You can search in google "Hotmail contacts API", I found a website with the API for Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo and Orkut.
[edited by: Psychopsia at 6:53 pm (utc) on Dec. 21, 2006]
Please be extremely careful with it, you're likely to be -rightfully- accused of (facilitating) sending spam - aka. UBE Unsolicited Bulk Email.
Please don't.
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