It also needs some try/except handling to be added for all the cases where Yahoo fails to provide the requested asset.
Once you sort those things out, it works pretty well.
login.yahoo.com creates 2 cookies. The program's help identifies two flags called -ct and -cy which I assume you're referring to. Am I to understand that to properly run the program, the command should be entered as so:
./yahoo.py -ct %cookieOneContent -cy %cookieTwoContent -u username -p password groupname
I don't know which cookie goes where so I tried it both ways, and both with and without the -u username and -p password flags; none of them worked, only returning HTTP Errors.
Sorry this is so tricky.
e: actually, no dice. Got it to work on one group and then never again. A couple of the groups I've tried can retrieve messages, but never files or attachments. It always gives an exception when it gets to the files.
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So: ./yahoo.py -ct "T cookie"-cy "Y cookie" -ce "F cookie" "group name"