Downloading AOL email to Outlook Express

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Hi -
Can anyone help me? I am new to using Outlook
Express. It came with Office 2000 Professional (I
think). I am trying to set up the email portion to
download from my AOL email address. And I can't find how
to do this. One way I tried listed 5 options for the
download, but none of them worked for AOL.
Where do you request this? Where do you put in your
email address?
Thanks for any help you can give.
Confused
 
"Confused" said in news:[email protected]:
Hi -
Can anyone help me? I am new to using Outlook
Express. It came with Office 2000 Professional (I
think). I am trying to set up the email portion to
download from my AOL email address. And I can't find how
to do this. One way I tried listed 5 options for the
download, but none of them worked for AOL.
Where do you request this? Where do you put in your
email address?
Thanks for any help you can give.
Confused
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Has AOL finally got RFC-compliant Internet standard POP3 and SMTP servers
yet? They didn't have before. They still probably don't. I've heard rumor
that they will eventually but that could be months and months away. AOL
uses a propriatary IMAP-like protocol all their own. So obviously e-mail
clients that expect to use Internet standard mail servers won't work with
AOL. Time to toss AOL and get a real Internet service provider.

OL2000: AOL E-mail Service Is Not Available for Microsoft Outlook Users
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=243336
 
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"Confused" said in news:bff901c3ee3e$7fd11de0 [email protected]:

Has AOL finally got RFC-compliant Internet standard POP3 and SMTP servers
yet? They didn't have before. They still probably don't. I've heard rumor
that they will eventually but that could be months and months away. AOL
uses a propriatary IMAP-like protocol all their own. So obviously e-mail
clients that expect to use Internet standard mail servers won't work with
AOL. Time to toss AOL and get a real Internet service provider.

OL2000: AOL E-mail Service Is Not Available for Microsoft Outlook Users
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=243336
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Hi -
Thanks for the info, though discouraging, about AOL.
What is a "real Internet service provider" - Earthlink or
what?
Thanks again.
Confused
 
Anyone but AOL.

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Confused <[email protected]> asked:
|| -----Original Message-----
|| "Confused" said in | [email protected]:
||| Hi -
||| Can anyone help me? I am new to using Outlook
||| Express. It came with Office 2000 Professional (I
||| think). I am trying to set up the email portion to
||| download from my AOL email address. And I can't find how
||| to do this. One way I tried listed 5 options for the
||| download, but none of them worked for AOL.
||| Where do you request this? Where do you put in your
||| email address?
||| Thanks for any help you can give.
||| Confused
||
|| Has AOL finally got RFC-compliant Internet standard POP3 and SMTP
|| servers yet? They didn't have before. They still probably don't.
|| I've heard rumor that they will eventually but that could be months
|| and months away. AOL uses a propriatary IMAP-like protocol all
|| their own. So obviously e-mail clients that expect to use Internet
|| standard mail servers won't work with AOL. Time to toss AOL and get
|| a real Internet service provider.
||
|| OL2000: AOL E-mail Service Is Not Available for Microsoft Outlook
|| Users http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=243336
||
||
| Hi -
| Thanks for the info, though discouraging, about AOL.
| What is a "real Internet service provider" - Earthlink or
| what?
| Thanks again.
| Confused
|
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