Ben Ruppel wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sebastian Sp�th wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sebastian Sp�th wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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!)
>>>>
>>>
>> You need to have AIM launched to collect AOL mail with N6.1 - there is
>> currently no equivalent with Mozilla
>>
>
I'm not sure about the technicalities, all I know is that N6.1 will collect AOL mail
IF you have AIM launched. If not, it won't!
