Thought everyone may be interested in this. With some research, I discovered what is likely causing this new AOL "Reading 1 of 0" problem with Emailer. A month or two ago -- I believe at the exact time we Emailer users began encountering this problem, in fact -- AOL DID change their mail protocols over to a new system. Now get this: The purpose of the new system is that AOL will, beginning this year, start allowing third party email clients (Outlook, Eudora, Entourage, Apple Mail, or whatever) to access AOL accounts! The catch is that the client MUST use IMAP. This effectively excludes Emailer. The concept is being called "Open Mail Access" internally by AOL. It is still in its testing stages, and right now it only works with Outlook for Windows. But I'll betcha something about this protocol switch is what's causing us to get these "Reading 1 of 0" errors, and I wonder if we'll lose AOL support altogether when the switch to the new IMAP protocol is complete. You can read about it here: http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=1070617514
Which brings up an interesting question. Will those of us -- like myself -- who are basically only using Emailer at this point because of its AOL support, leave Emailer once we can use Apple Mail, Entourage, or anything else to access our AOL accounts? >Yup. Been going on for some time as discussed here. It only happens when >you check your AOL email and there are no messages to retrieve. Some >folks send themselves mail before checking so that the account won't be >"empty." Another work around is to do a "Send" from the "Connect Now" >button. > >Speculation is that AOL has been fooling around with their mail protocols >in order to serve its members better and "broke" the conduit used by >Emailer to check and send mail. Most likely not worth complaining as >there are so few Emailer/AOL users as it wouldn't be worth their while to >try to fix the problem. They may even wake up and realize that there is a >"Non-AOL" email client that can retreive AOL mail. > >Ken ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
