Thanks
That is one option I'd considered and may use. Archived mail in one
spot, new stuff in Emailer, regardless of the ability to move the
contents of the "Personal filing cabinet". It has some advantages and I
can set up AOL so it will not connect -- AOL has done that for me!
We've got AOL 5.0 installed and working under TCP/IP so it would be
a simple way to do things. All that would be needed is installing
Emailer and disabling but not uninstalling, AOL.
PS. I'm doing this for my 70+ year old in-laws so time
considerations are out the window :-). I use AOL just for the address
($5 @ month) and connect without AOL or their software, so I know what
you illustrate.
>My Reply follows quote. On 23/06/2002 12:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
>> Situation and plans
>> We are with AOL 5.0 under Classic connecting through a non-AOL ISP.
>> I've been told convincingly that we cannot get online through an AOL
>># without using AOL software to dial. 4.0 and 5.0 cannot dial.
>> We do not want to go to AOL for OS 10. We want to leave AOL but
>>want to keep our AOL screen name, address book, and accumulated mail.
>> I know we can send/receive new email from Emailer under Classic.
>>The question is the accumulated mail.
>-----------------
>Don't know that there is an "easy" solution to your situation that does
>what you want. As a suggestion, you might consider installing the AOL
>software (I know, it is a bit of bloatware of the first order!) however
>you might still want to do periodic "housekeeping" of your AOL account
>(such as screen name changes, password changes, retreiving of
>accidentally deleted messages, or some other unanticipated need). I
>believe as long as you have your AOL account you can't do these
>things any other way.
>
>Short of saving all you AOL email as text files and manally putting
>them into one of the email archivers (either Hypercard or Filemaker based)
>and then moving them to Emailer your time would be better spent mowing
>the grass and installing some version of AOL on your new machine. I have
>had my AOL account for 7 years but keep NO mail in the "filing cabinet"
>having used Emailer to get and send mail for the whole time. Just keep
>the AOL filing cabinet for an "archive" (do you really read the old
>stuff all that often?) and go to Emailer for the future.
>
>Ken
>
>
>Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.
>
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