Okay, I'm just trying to help. Normally, an ISP provides a server name
that you can use to get your mail with. This server doesn't require any
proprietary software or going to a web page. As long as you know the
name of the server and you have your password, you can fill it in on an
email client (including netscape mail and mozilla) and use that client
to access your mail. An example would be imap.aol.net or pop.aol.net or
mail.aol.net.
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
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> Ben Ruppel wrote:
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>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
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>>>>> Sebastian Sp�th wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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!)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>> 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!
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