I don't use AOL and have a question.

For someone leaving AOL for "real" E-Mail (e.g. Outlook POP3/SMTP mail,
with the mail stored locally on his machine), is there a way to download
all of the mail that AOL has stored on their servers into the Outlook
PST message store file?

[Obviously, one could forward the mail to themselves, but I'm wondering
if there is a more elegant solution]?

If not in Outlook, then what about Netscape? It has some facility for
reading AOL mail, which I've never used, but does it have the ability to
store the mail locally?

Thanks

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I can't imagine it would be any different than anything else. You either
have POP or IMAP. With IMAP the messages are stored on the server (and you
are screwed if you "cleanup" by deleting off the server and expect to see
your messages still in outlook). POP is usually a complete download to the
client (I think). Either way, you'd have to have one of these protocols to
get your messages into Outlook. Check with places like fastmail ... as they
have already perfected things like the hotmail sucker (automatically grabs
hotmail to put in your fastmail acct).
"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
news:QbK9c.84594$8G2.66961@fe3.columbus.rr.com...
> I don't use AOL and have a question.
>
> For someone leaving AOL for "real" E-Mail (e.g. Outlook POP3/SMTP mail,
> with the mail stored locally on his machine), is there a way to download
> all of the mail that AOL has stored on their servers into the Outlook
> PST message store file?
>
> [Obviously, one could forward the mail to themselves, but I'm wondering
> if there is a more elegant solution]?
>
> If not in Outlook, then what about Netscape? It has some facility for
> reading AOL mail, which I've never used, but does it have the ability to
> store the mail locally?
>
> Thanks
>

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No, it is VERY different, AOL is neither POP nor IMAP, it's browser
based, they keep the E-Mail on THEIR server and you just "look" at it
with their E-Mail application. However, there may be a way to "import"
it into a non-AOL POP E-Mail system, that's what I was asking about.

MSN has also gone to browser-based E-Mail.


techshare wrote:

> I can't imagine it would be any different than anything else. You either
> have POP or IMAP. With IMAP the messages are stored on the server (and you
> are screwed if you "cleanup" by deleting off the server and expect to see
> your messages still in outlook). POP is usually a complete download to the
> client (I think). Either way, you'd have to have one of these protocols to
> get your messages into Outlook. Check with places like fastmail ... as they
> have already perfected things like the hotmail sucker (automatically grabs
> hotmail to put in your fastmail acct).
> "Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:QbK9c.84594$8G2.66961@fe3.columbus.rr.com...
>
>
>
>

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In article <4071D214.3050808@neo.rr.com>,
Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote:

> No, it is VERY different, AOL is neither POP nor IMAP, it's browser
> based, they keep the E-Mail on THEIR server and you just "look" at it
> with their E-Mail application. However, there may be a way to "import"
> it into a non-AOL POP E-Mail system, that's what I was asking about.

As of April 5, the day you posted this message, this is no longer
true. AOL now has IMAP and authenticated SMTP servers.

For details, see:
http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/imap/

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