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AOL Mail To Be Accessible Via IMAP

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the move-in-right-direction dept.

jfruhlinger writes "News.com.com is reporting that AOL's e-mail service, long accessible only via AOL's proprietary, monolithic app, will be available via IMAP starting Thursday. The story notes that this is part of a series of initiatives from AOL to move content beyond its walled garden and into standards-based formats such as HTML and IMAP that any Internet app can access. Supposedly a 'a dramatically different direction' for Netscape is in the works, too."

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  1. Re:Finally by spronk · · Score: 3, Interesting
    It's funny you chose "finally" as yoru subject line. The IMAP interface was in beta when I left the company over 2 years ago. At that time it didn't implement any IMAP features and instead provided a POP3 interface over the IMAP port so that marketing could call it an IMAP server.

    Let's hope it's progressed since then!

  2. Re:And the best IMAP Client is... by rishistar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah I had that as well. Am using Mozilla until Thunderbird 1.0 comes out for that very reason. Hopefully it'll be fixed by then (well it may all be sorted out now but I got fed up of shifting mailboxes over!)

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