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Transferring Mail from AOL?

Posted by Cliff on from the preserving-important-content dept.

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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  1. Why? by deepestblue · · Score: -1, Troll

    And what's going to happen, 5 years +, when Google charges $50 p.m. just to access GMail, and you want to switch away? Oh, I forgot, this is /., where AOL is t3h sux0rs and Google "does no evil".

    The real answer is to set up a mail server already and give him an account there.