BTW, thanks to the $750 million Microsoft paid to AOL/Time Warner (now only Time Warner), AOL has made it sure that the AOL program will not run in Linux. NoMatterWhat.

Many AOL users are forced to stay with AOL (and thus Windows) because of their e-mail account.

Neither Mozilla nor Thunderbird (or any other e-mail agent) does AOL mails. However, there is one except: Netscape. With Netscape 7.1, you can create and operate an AOL mail account. And it is actually much more convenient to do AOL mail via Netscape/Linux than using AOL's own webmail method.

However, there is a caveat: If the AOL user has ever changed his/her password, the current password may not work and the Netscape mail may require a previous password. This is very weird, but it took me a long while to accidently bump into the solution. And, Voila!

Another problem is, Netscape is not xft-enabled. If anyone knows how to add fonts to Netscape, would very much appreciate your suggestions. wayne

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