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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:Wish AIM were next by Azghoul · · Score: 0, Troll

    You asshat. GAIM might have failed for you personally, but it sure as shit doesn't blow (hard or otherwise).

    GAIM kicks ass for me on Win32. I use it all the time, every day, and it has yet to crash.

    Damn, I love jackasses that assume because they messed up something, it must suck and suck for everyone.

  2. Re:Wish AIM were next by Raven42rac · · Score: 0, Troll

    At least they tried. There are only umpteen billion flavors of *nix out there. I will just stick to iChat, thank you.

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