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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[WindBourne]

I have been asked several times to convert ppl over to Linux. What they really wanted was for me to re-install a stolen version of Windows on their systems. Well, great. It is stolen for starters, and secondly, I have not done windows in over a decade (until just 6 months ago).

So help them move to Linux. Every thing is cool. Runs, no issues. Right? Wrong. Pretty soon they want to install new apps. One of them allows you to pay the site $15.00 and you get all the music that you want for free. Wellcome to scam site. They paid, and then expected me to load the app. Even as I explained that it was Windows only (and spyware at that) and that it was going to leave them open to Feds hitting them. But do they listen? No. Finally, they do this 3 more times, and I suggested that they move on over to windows. Last I heard, they are busy downloading music that they paid 15 for (1 time charge), but their system is running slow and they would like me to fix it. shesssh.

Well, at least the others are doing just fine.