On 09:51 AM 3/8/01, Margaret Levine Young wrote:
>One other solution for AOL users who want to post plain text:
>
>If you use Netscape 6, the mail part of the program lets you set up your
>AOL account so that you can send and receive your mail AOL mail with
>Netscape! This is surprising, since no other e-mail program can do this. If
>you post from Netscape 6, you can post plain text.
>
>Looking at the Netscape settings, it's getting the AOL via IMAP from
>imap.mail.aol.com. I tried setting Eudora up to get my AOL mail the same
>way, but it didn't work. Interesting.
heh. I bet it would work if you configured Eudora somehow to say "Hi, I'm
Netscape 6 and I need the IMAP account for foo....". It would be
interesting to sniff the connection and see exactly what netscape is
sending to AOL to get connected.
jc
