Re: Verizon Email => AOL

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Subject	Re: Verizon Email => AOL
Date	2017-03-04 18:06 -0500
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In article <51W5y0sPNk52-pn2-qdt2bPlihm6z@localhost>, John Varela
<newlamps@verizon.net> wrote:

> > > Verizon is transferring their email service to AOL servers.
> > 
> > not everywhere, they aren't.
> 
> IINM they have been running Verizon email on AOL servers for some 
> time.
> 
> Whatever. It's just a matter of time. There was a news item in The 
> Washington Post a few weeks ago that Verizon was switching to AOL in
> Virginia. I have been waiting now for a notification to come but 
> none has, and I'm getting antsy.

virginia is not everywhere.


> > > Can anyone recommend mail apps for Mac and iPad that work well with 
> > > AOL IMAP? If so, how good is the Mac version at importing archived 
> > > mailboxes from Mail.app? I have hundreds of archived emails sorted 
> > > into dozens of mailboxes.
> > 
> > there is no such thing as 'aol imap'. 
> 
> The AOL FAQ on the transition says there is, but not for Apple Mail.
> 
> <https://help.aol.com/articles/verizon-move-to-aol-mail-setting-up-y
> our-new-aol-account-in-a-third-party-email-program-or-mobile-device-
> imap>

that describes imap, not an 'aol imap', and it's clearly written by
morons who haven't a clue.

if outlook, thunderbird and other email clients support imap, then so
can apple mail. they explain how to configure outlook and thunderbird
for imap, but for some reason, they let apple mail use its defaults,
which apparently chooses pop. it's not at all hard to not use the
default and configure it for imap.

> > > I'd much rather not switch mail providers because I have at least 
> > > 100 web sites that use one of my Verizon addresses as User ID and it
> > > would be a real pain to go around changing all of those sites. I'm 
> > > not even sure that I could change some of them.
> > 
> > set up forwarding.
> 
> Verizon will cancel any address that is idle for 90 days. Define 
> "idle". I suspect it means nothing outgoing, because there will 
> always be spam incoming.

no they definitely won't.

> There are more problems. According to that FAQ, AOL ses up POP3 to 
> erase an email once downloaded.

that has nothing to do with aol. that's how pop works. if you use imap,
that won't occur.

> So when I am travelling and want to 
> use the iPad, I can't, because if an email is one that I save I 
> won't be able to easily get it to my Mac for archiving.

that's what imap is for.

it's time to ditch pop.

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  Re: Verizon Email => AOL nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-03 17:14 -0500
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        Re: Verizon Email => AOL Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-03-04 17:57 -0800
        Re: Verizon Email => AOL "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2017-03-05 21:10 +0000
      Re: Verizon Email => AOL nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-04 18:06 -0500
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        Re: Verizon Email => AOL Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2017-03-04 03:03 +0000
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            Re: Verizon Email => AOL Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2017-03-04 05:17 +0000
              Re: Verizon Email => AOL nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-04 00:24 -0500
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                Re: Verizon Email => AOL nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-04 02:33 -0500
                Re: Verizon Email => AOL Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-04 14:22 +0000
                Re: Verizon Email => AOL Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2017-03-04 16:24 +0000
                Re: Verizon Email => AOL Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-04 16:36 +0000
                Re: Verizon Email => AOL Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2017-03-04 09:41 -0800
                Re: Verizon Email => AOL Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2017-03-04 18:25 +0000
                Re: Verizon Email => AOL nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-04 13:40 -0500
                Re: Verizon Email => AOL Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-05 00:43 +0000
                Re: Verizon Email => AOL nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-04 19:59 -0500
                Re: Verizon Email => AOL Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-04 18:40 +0000
                Re: Verizon Email => AOL Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-05 00:41 +0000
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                Re: Verizon Email => AOL Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2017-03-05 16:20 +0000
                Re: Verizon Email => AOL Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-05 16:34 +0000
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