Jim Robertson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 25/2/03 16:39: > I have two close friends (husband and wife) who are migrating from AOL to a > real ISP. They're bummed out about not being able to export their email > address book from their AOL client software to be imported into a mail > client that follows most internet standards. > > I just remembered that Claris emailer used to be able to retrieve aol mail. > Does this program still exist? Can it still read AOL mail? If one uses it to > read/store aol mail, would it be hard to extract the email address book to > be imported into Entourage for X (for mac OS X) or Outlook X for Windows?
Yep, been there and done that even though I still keep a minimum wage AOL account for travel access. The big bad news is that AOL has strategized their email program to deliberately make it difficult for subscribers to leave. There really is no easy way to retrieve all the old emails short of forwarding them to the new ISP one by one. A few years ago, there used to be a 3rd party program that managed to hack into one of the older versions of AOL client program to retrieve all the emails. But that was something like v2 or v3 of AOL client. And I have not heard of any similar programs for recent versions of AOL client. As for Claris Emailer. Lovely and efficient program but a dead product now. It is capable of retrieving unread AOL emails but won't retrieve what's already saved into AOL Client's email database. Even then, a few times AOL tried to block Emailer's access to their server. But eventually these got fixed through user complaints. But irrespective of the current state of interoperability with AOL, it won't help your friends now. My suggestion is for them to cut their losses and move over ASAP. Forward what they value and live with it. If they want to stay with AOL for a while longer, then they'll just have to borrow, steal, beg for a copy of Emailer 2.0v3. Once in Emailer, there are options for migrating to Entourage through various 3rd party AppleScripts. Ok, I just checked my AOL email for the first time in some 3 years using Emailer running under Classic in 10.2.4. Yep, it still works and managed to download 25 spam emails! :( Hope this helps. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
