On 3/8/01 4:27 PM, David W. Tamkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote...
>Margy wrote,
>
>| 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.
>
>Comparably, Outlook Express does pseudo-IMAP and pseudo-SMTP over HTTP for
>Hotmail mailboxes, and it's the OE settings that determine plain text or
>HTML. As Bob said of Netscape and AOL, the corporate connection is glaring.
Outlook Express is using WebDAV. They claim that any WebDAV client can
access Hotmail, but I get the impression that it's not that simple.
>I wonder if perhaps Netscape's access to AOL mail is also over HTTP and the
>name "imap" for the server is a red herring.
No, it really is IMAP.
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