>Chris recently summarized his own opinion of various email clients. My >recollection is that Mailsmith cannot deal with AOL mail. I heard a long >time ago that AOL planned never to do anything again to cooperate with >outside email clients.
MailSmith can not deal with AOL mail, but not because AOL won't work with other mail clients... rather it is because MailSmith doesn't do IMAP. For a very long time, it was true that AOL would not allow any other mail clients to work with their email. Emailer was the exception (that and a few palm based clients, and the occasional web mail hack). However, about a year or so ago, AOL changed their stance, and created a standard IMAP gateway to AOL mail. So now any email client that can support IMAP can collect AOL mail. >I have reasons for needing to keep my AOL account, so that is a reason to >hang on to Emailer. There is no Intel Mac in my immediate future so I'm >okay for now. Alas, AOL mail is no longer a reason to be forced to keep Emailer. In fact, Emailer's access to AOL mail is a reason NOT to use Emailer. The Emailer gateway counts as connect time to AOL, so if you aren't on an unlimited plan, each time you connect, it counts as at least 1 minute of time. If you use the IMAP gateway and an IMAP capable email client, it does NOT count as connect time. This is good for people like me that have their AOL account set as the $5/mn plan and only get 2 hours of use a month. >Are there any emerging email client paths opening for AOL access? Anything that supports IMAP, so you can use Thunderbird, Apple's Mail, probably PowerMail and Eudora, Entourage, and any number of other mail clients. Alas, MailSmith does not currently support IMAP. I can't speak for if they will add support for it in the future. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
