Okay, so you're saying that AOL doesn't provide a standard IMAP or POP
mail account, correct?
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
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> Ben Ruppel wrote:
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>> If AOL is your ISP, shouldn't you be able to access your AOL mail with
>> IMAP or POP? Any mail program should be able to check those accounts.
>> Then again, I havn't used AOL in ages.
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>> Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
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>>> Sebastian Sp�th wrote:
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>>>> Sebastian Sp�th wrote:
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>>>>> AOL/Netscape are simply using proprietary formats for their mail
>>>>> access, thus ensuring that people are actually using standard mail
>>>>> tools.
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>>>> Darn, I think faster than I type (or was it the other way round :-)?
>>>> I meant, thus ensuring that people are using their propriatary
>>>> applications and not standard mail tools.
>>>>
>>>> I don't need a spell checker, I need a sense-making checker,
>>>> Sebastian
>>>>
>>>
>>> I agree that AOL is crap, but there is a very good reason I have an
>>> account - in the UK I beleive that AOL is the ONLY provider to give
>>> non-British Telecom telephone line users flat rate unmetered internet
>>> acces! (I'm waiting for NTL broadband to be rolled out to where I
>>> live so that will solve it!)
>>>
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> You need to have AIM launched to collect AOL mail with N6.1 - there is
> currently no equivalent with Mozilla
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