>Does anyone know whether it would be legal for AOL to drop Emailer >support? When we purchased Claris Emailer, was it not represented that >we would get AOL connections, and this represention was due to an >arrangement Claris made with AOL? If so, can this representation expire? > Or might AOL be forced to fix this?
I doubt there is any legal requirement for AOL to keep the gateway running. It would be the same as saying Apple has a legal requirement to continue to support Emailer, because when you bought Emailer, you bought it with the representation that it could send and receive email... but with new requirements for SMTP Authentication, SSL POP, and IMAP, Emailer can no longer do its basic job for many people. Does that mean Apple is legally obligated to add these features to Emailer? The fact is, when you bought Emailer, it COULD connect to AOL, and it could for a VERY long time. Longer then some of AOL's own clients can (I don't think you can connect to AOL with pre 3.0 clients any more, but I could be mistaken). I think AOL has shown good faith in keeping their end of the bargin. In fact, on two different occasions, the AOL gateway broke, and was then fixed by AOL. So they could really say that they gave you fair warning that one day it would stop (what better way to alert everyone that uses it then to just turn it off or "break" it temporarily). And of course, there is nothing stopping you from using Emailer with AOL. There is just one minor glitch, one that even has a valid workaround. Sure, its not as ideal and well working as it used to, but its no more broken then many other people's copies of Emailer. Think of all the people that need mail authentication and have to run scripts to do POP before SMTP, or have to use Baton Mail for SMTP Auth. And all the people that need two @s in their email Account field in order to check their email. Or everyone that has the truncation bug when using high ascii characters, or the people who have to remove the .DS_Store file from their temp incoming folder, or the people that have to periodically remove a bad Temp Incoming file because Emailer can't handle the number of MIME wrappers or the long attachment filename in an email. Lets face it. Emailer is getting old, and every day more problems are found making it harder and harder to use Emailer. And each day it becomes more effort then it is worth for another user, and they move on to a different client. One day, there will be none of us left that still use Emailer. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
