[luau] Doing AOL Mail in Linux

Hawaii Linux Institute wp at HawaiiLinux.us
Fri Jan 16 09:02:01 PST 2004


BTW, thanks to the $750 million Microsoft paid to AOL/Time Warner (now 
only Time Warner), AOL has made it sure that the AOL program will not 
run in Linux.  NoMatterWhat.

Many AOL users are forced to stay with AOL (and thus Windows) because of 
their e-mail account.

Neither Mozilla nor Thunderbird (or any other e-mail agent) does AOL 
mails.  However, there is one except: Netscape.  With Netscape 7.1, you 
can create and operate an AOL mail account.  And it is actually much 
more convenient to do AOL mail via Netscape/Linux than using AOL's own 
webmail method.

However, there is a caveat:  If the AOL user has ever changed his/her 
password, the current password may not work and the Netscape mail may 
require a previous password.  This is very weird, but it took me a long 
while to accidently bump into the solution.  And, Voila!

Another problem is, Netscape is not xft-enabled.  If anyone knows how to 
add fonts to Netscape, would very much appreciate your suggestions.  wayne




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