This always comes up on email help lists, but it seems maybe there is relief.
* After nearly 20 years of maintaining a proprietary e-mail system, America Online has finally opened up its e-mail format so that you can download your messages using standard e-mail programs like Outlook, Outlook Express, and Mac OS X Mail. (Technically speaking, what AOL now offers are so- called IMAP servers.) Thanks to Leo Laporte of TechTV's "The Screen Savers" for publicizing this Web site, http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/imap , which shows you how to configure your e-mail program step by step.
