On 8/19/01 11:23 AM, John N Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote...
> David W. Tamkin wrote:
-snip-
>> Does Netscape have some special hook into AOL mail (it might, just as OE
>> does for Hotmail), or is there some other email provider to whom you refer
>> them?
>
> AOL owns Netscape, remember? In Netscape 6, one of the options when
> you're setting up your mail account is to use your AOL account. It
> looks to me like technically it's nothing special, it's just an IMAP
> server that's accessible within AOL's network. It's quite possible that
> any other IMAP client such as Eudora or OE would work.
No. The IMAP servers use a proprietary authentication scheme and special
X-AOL IMAP commands.
All of this, as well as the HTML issue, is well documented in my AOL
Email FAQ (http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/).
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