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> Hi !!
>
> As for a while, I've been searching for a
way to send/receive e-mails from
> AOL
> (I mean through AOL
servers not their web-site)
>
> I just wanted to ask you
whether I can exploit the Jabber open-source
> resources
> to
do this, or it's a totally different story. if so, i'd be highly glad
if
> you could lead me into knowledge base or code that demonstrates
such
> capabilities.
>
> I have tried to investigate the
AOL protocol quite a lot, and have gained a
> little experience
about it, but it's far from being good enough, especially
> for
picture/graphics embedded in the email body. the AOL protocol is
far
> vague in this situation. (as it is obsucre in general, on
second thought...)
>
> concepts like "Tokens" (for
operations), and "FDO" (compression methods..)
> are common in AOL
protocol but are not clear enough to work with.
> (all AOL packets
are something like "Z**....."
>
> I know that in order to send
AIM one has to deal with the above kinds of
> packets
> Did
you manage to do it? or found other way that can bypass AOL
horrible
> transport methods?
>
> Thanx very
much
> Yuval Gross
> Software Engineer
>
>
P.S:
> the target AOL server which I know is
"AmericaOnline.aol.ocm:5190"
> I've noticed something about "OSCAR"
farm servers, is there any significant difference?
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