Hi Charlie,
Sure!
You can use any email program that supports IMAP to deal with your
AOL mail.
That includes among others, the free Mozilla Thunderbird, and the not
free Powermail. Be warned though, most of the imap capable email
programs
I have tried seem sort of slow when used in imap mode. Some don't
actually do well with imap connections, even though it's a advertised
feature. So if you're looking at it, be sure to test drive.
Best,
Dave Nathanson
Mac Medix
I just switched over to Apple Mail full time on the first of the
year. I needed an email client that supported IMAP so my wife can
keep using her AOL email address for business. In the final running
for which email client to use were Apple Mail and PowerMail. I chose
Apple's mail because I can select from several different options for
IMAP accounts under "Keep messages for offline viewing." This means
like Emailer, Apple's Mail can automatically download messages and
attachments to my hard drive. IMAP accounts are designed to store the
messages on the server and not on your local hard drive, Apple Mail
gets around this limitation.
I subscribed to the PowerMail list for a while and it seems that you
can "Save" IMAP messages manually to your hard drive but not
automatically. I say, it seems, because while I was reading the list
this question was asked and either ingnored or never directly
answered. Which seemed kinda strange. Also I let the 30 day trial
elapse before I tried to store IMAP messages on my computer and I
didn't want to do a clean install of OSX to try PowerMail again.
BTY you can also set up Apple Mail for keep or not keep POP messages
on the server. I ran both Emailer and Mail for a while and set up
Mail to leave the messages from multiple POP and IMAP accounts on the
server. Right after I retrived my email with Apple Mail I retrieved
my email with emailer so while I was evaluating Apple Mail I had
duplicate received messages on both Emailer and Mail.
Maybe it is because I have Apple Mail set up to retrieve mail from
multiple IMAP and POP accounts that I don't notice the IMAP accounts
being slow. However Apple Mail has a slower user interface similar to
how the OSX finder is slower the the OS 9 finder. Probably because OS
9 is not burdened with the heavy graphics load of things like shadows
and transparencies.
I would go back to and good OSX version of Emailer in a second.
However there are things I do like about Apple Mail and things I
don't. I spent a lot of time learning Mail's preferences to get it to
work as close to emailer as I could. One thing really drove me away
from Emailer was having to separately delete attachments, especially
now that so much spam is coming with attached files.
If you do go to Mail try the free utility "Mail Act-On."
Maybe some day I will try Thunderbird again but at the time I was
tried of evaluating email clients.
Gary Goodenough
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