Hello,

I have a friend who has AOL and he wants to use AOL to access a POP3 email account on a non-AOL server (like the rest of the free world does with Outlook Express). I looked on the AOL website and found the following.

http://www.help.aol.com/help/browse.do?WidgetName=BROWSE_PRODUCT&TaxoName=SG_SupportGoals&BROWSE_PRODUCT.isProductTaxonomy=true&BROWSE_PRODUCT.NodeId=SG_Open_Mail_Access&BROWSE_PRODUCT.thisPageUrl=%2Fproduct%2Fproducts.d o&id=m1&BROWSE_PRODUCT.TaxoName=SG_SupportGoals&NodeType=leaf&NodeName=Open+Mail+Access&BROWSE_PRODUCT.NodeType=leaf&NodeId=SG_Open_Mail_Access&AppContext=AC_ProductPage

While AOl has all sorts of info on accessing AOL mail (located on their servers) with various mail clients, it appears that you can not point your AOL mail client to send/retrieve email to/from non-AOL servers. Is this correct?

In otherwords, do I just tell my friend that he is going to have to suck it up and use Outlook Express, Netscape, or something else?

In which case he will have 2 options...

1) Read his AOL email via AOL and his non-AOL email with Outlook Express.

2) Setup Outlook Express to point to AOL's servers (as AOL instructs) and do everything (including non-AOL email) from within Outlook Express.

In the second case, I think he would be understandably perturbed that he will have to manually migrate over his address books and existing folders/filters, Correct?

Thanks,
Mike

Suck it up and don't use AOL - I thought you were a tech guy?


In Outlook express, make a second identity and set it up for the POP stuff.

Suck it up and don't use AOL - I thought you were a tech guy?


In Outlook express, make a second identity and set it up for the POP stuff.


John....Mike is talking about me...

Can you move this thread to the Puters thread.....alos where the hell is the report to modifiers button

John....Mike is talking about me...

Can you move this thread to the Puters thread.....alos where the hell is the report to modifiers button

I figured it was you... I thought you had AOHELL broadband? not just dialup?

If you really want to flex your technical muscles, Use the Firefox e-mail Client, thunderbird, to manage your regular POP mail...

to the consumers detriment......between AOL (almost on line) and microsoft... so certain things that should be easy, are not possible..
mail can sometimes be imported to another mail client but not directly accessed. So its a question of selecting an email client that will import mail from anywhere...like john said: thunderbird mail ... that works with firefox browser is getting great reviews .