On or near 4/15/04 10:21 PM, Robert B. Tapp at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > I am encouraging several friends to give up on AOL. They tell me that they > are essentially locked in since there is no way to export contacts and URLs. > > Does anyone know of software that will do this? > > Robert Tapp
I found this (somewhat outdated) information, which may help: > it's not easy! I found this site: http://www.emailman.com/conversion/ it > offers some ideas. some commercial, some free. I also gleaned this info from a > couple of other sites: > > Before you cancel your AOL account, you will probably want to get the email > addresses out of your AOL address book. Unfortunately, there is no way to > automatically switch your email addresses from AOL to the email client you use > with Internet ONRAMP. The easiest way will be to send an email from your AOL > account to everybody in your address book and also enter your new Internet > ONRAMP email address in the "To" field. You can use this email to let your > friends and contacts know that your email address has changed and to ask them > not to use your old AOL email address any more. You can enter your friends > addresses by doing the following: > > For Outlook Express > Double click the email message to open it in another window. Double click each > email address or name, and click the Add to Address Book button. You can then > edit the address book entry. Click OK. You will need to do this for each > contact in the email message. > > For Netscape 4.x > With the email message open, click the Message menu. Choose Add All to Address > Book. Each contact will pop up individually allowing you to edit the > information before it is added into the address book. > > For Netscape 7 > With the email message open, click each email address and choose Add to > address book. If necessary, edit the information then click OK. You will need > to do this for each contact in the email message. > > > > http://www.reidinternet.co.uk/ca/email.htm > In AOL 6-9 it isn't as easy to do but try using the following method. > > 1. In the Mail menu, select Address Book. > 2. Select some or all the addresses you want to transfer. To select the > addresses, hold down the Ctrl key while clicking on each address. > 3. Click on the Send To icon. > 4. A new email message window will open with all the addresses in the Send To > box. > 5. Highlight all the addresses, select Cut from the Edit menu, and paste them > into the body of your message. > 6. In the now empty Send To box, type in the screen name you want to transfer > the addresses to. > 7. Go to the Sign Off menu and select Switch screen names. Select the screen > name you sent your addresses to. > 8. Highlight the addresses in your message. > 9. Click on the Add Address button. The addresses will be added to your > address book. > 10. In the Mail menu, select Address Book. > 11. Fill in the desired contact information. > 12. Click on Save. > > Address Book Updating > > In AOLs 6 - 9 your address book is held on the server and updates each time > you use it. A backup is held on your computer. If there is a problem with the > AOL server or your connection becomes slow, the address book may take ages to > update or even fail to update and give you a blank book. This is not uncommon > and don't worry. Try again later and your address book should return. > > If this problem persists you may be able to read your address book offline by > opening a write box and then the address book. There is no real way of backing > up the address book but you can make a copy of it to use if AOL servers are > playing up. Follow the instructions above for moving an address book between > screen names, but keep the list as a text file by saving the email window you > paste the list into as text. If the address book fails, you can open the text > file and cut and paste addresses as necessary. -- 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/>
