Yahoo! Finally Fixes Their IMAP, Is Data Drain Done?

As of last week, Yahoo! still hadn’t fixed their data vampire email problems, but finally Rafael Riviera is reporting that they’ve gotten around to patching the enormous bugs:
After discovering the problem, I made it habit to log into Yahoo every few days, checking their “imapgate” software version. Today, I was pleasantly surprised to see they had upgraded from 0.7.65_12.286037 to 0.7.65_14.298026 fixing the issue. I can’t say when this happened precisely, but I suspect it was rolled out earlier in the week, to coincide with the new Windows Phone update. (Of course, the update never shipped.)

Anyway, I re-tested their FETCH capabilities and lo’ and behold – the bug was fixed!

Here’s my phone requesting some message information:

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A8 FETCH 134:135 (UID FLAGS BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (MESSAGE-ID)]).
… and here’s Yahoo’s shiny new reply!

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* 134 FETCH (FLAGS () UID 260 BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (MESSAGE-ID)] {52}
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Message-ID: <4D7940FD.5030509@withinwindows.com>
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If you recall, Yahoo previously sent back the entire message header. Now, only the requested information (Message-ID) is returned. If you write IMAP software that access Yahoo servers, let me know if you see any other changes good or bad.

So readers, has this put an end to Yahoo!’s dastardly data drain?