Transferring Mail from AOL?

Bazooka Joel asks: "My father has been a long time user of AOL. He subscribed to AOL's dialup service about 5 years ago and created his first email account with their services. We now have cable internet from a local company, but he still pays $15 a month just to access his email. I have tried to get him to switch to Gmail, but he is stubborn. He finally relented and said that if I could forward all of his old mail (thousands of messages) and import his contact list into Gmail, he would cancel his AOL subscription. After searching the 'net, I found a way to import his contacts. However, I cannot find a program that will forward all of his old mail. Can anybody lend me a hand?"

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Re:Leave him with a POP client

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Wow, great answer - the guy wants to migrate existing email out from AOL, and your solution is to ignore the problem and hope it goes away "in a few years". Brilliant.

Although, at first I misread your header and thought you advised leaving the old guy with a POOP client. At his age, that's probably already a problem...