Re: Verizon Email => AOL

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Verizon Email => AOL
Date	2017-03-03 22:42 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2017-03-03, John Varela <newlamps@verizon.net> wrote:
> Verizon is transferring their email service to AOL servers.

Heh. Lame. I'm a Verizon customer; but I couldn't tell you what my
Verizon email address is. I've come to have little interest in using
email addresses provided by service providers like Verizon, because I
don't want to be locked in if I should decide to go with another
provider. Instead, I use Apple's iCloud mail (which I never anticipate
getting moving away from) and my own email server, along with unlimited
disposable addresses provided for free by http://dnt.abine.com.

> I have been using Verizon POP mail with Mail.app on two iMacs (one 
> for me, one for her) and an iPad. My wife and I both have multiple 
> email addresses. I maintain her and my iMacs as the masters and use 
> the iPad for mail only when travelling. So I have it set up that 
> mail downloaded to the iPad is left on the server, but mail 
> downloaded to a Mac is erased immediately. That works fine for me 
> and I haven't bothered to convert to IMAP.

IMAP is *highly* recommended since it is *way* less problematic, and you
don't have to worry about configuring individual clients not to delete
mail. Your mail is stored on the server and is automatically available
everywhere. It's way more convenient and simple in design than the
ancient POP.

> Now comes AOL and says POP3 always erases email as soon as 
> downloaded. If they really mean that, then I cannot continue as I 
> have been. When reading email on the iPad it will be necessary to go
> to the AOL (ugh!) web site. I could do that but would much rather 
> not.
>
> Either that, or switch to IMAP. But here is the Catch 22: The AOL 
> FAQ says that "Mac (Apple) Mail only supports POP3 protocol for 
> Verizon migrated accounts."

They could be saying that they are not providing IMAP support to Verizon
migrated accounts. It's hard to tell. Either way, AOL is something I
would definitely avoid at all costs. That zombie company can't die soon
enough. 

> Can that be true? Does anyone here have experience using Mail.app 
> with AOL?
>
> 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.

The built-in mail clients do IMAP just fine - assuming AOL will actually
provide IMAP support to you. 

> 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.

Yeah. That's the kind of lock-in I avoid! Consider switching them all to
your icloud.com address!

-- 
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I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

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Verizon Email => AOL "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2017-03-03 22:06 +0000
  Re: Verizon Email => AOL nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-03 17:14 -0500
    Re: Verizon Email => AOL David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2017-03-03 17:36 -0600
      Re: Verizon Email => AOL nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-03 19:17 -0500
        Re: Verizon Email => AOL Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2017-03-04 16:04 -0500
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            Re: Verizon Email => AOL Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2017-03-05 17:22 -0500
              Re: Verizon Email => AOL Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-07 09:08 +0000
                Re: Verizon Email => AOL nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-07 08:02 -0500
                Re: Verizon Email => AOL Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-07 14:39 +0000
                Re: Verizon Email => AOL Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-07 15:40 +0000
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      Re: Verizon Email => AOL Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-04 00:18 +0000
        Re: Verizon Email => AOL nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-03 19:22 -0500
    Re: Verizon Email => AOL Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-04 07:59 +0000
      Re: Verizon Email => AOL nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-04 11:05 -0500
        Re: Verizon Email => AOL Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-04 16:23 +0000
    Re: Verizon Email => AOL "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2017-03-04 22:38 +0000
      Re: Verizon Email => AOL Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2017-03-04 15:02 -0800
        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
        Re: Verizon Email => AOL Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-05 00:36 +0000
          Re: Verizon Email => AOL nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-04 19:59 -0500
            Re: Verizon Email => AOL Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-05 07:11 +0000
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  Re: Verizon Email => AOL Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2017-03-03 14:24 -0800
  Re: Verizon Email => AOL Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-03 22:42 +0000
    Re: Verizon Email => AOL Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2017-03-03 23:40 +0000
      Re: Verizon Email => AOL Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-04 00:18 +0000
        Re: Verizon Email => AOL Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2017-03-04 03:03 +0000
          Re: Verizon Email => AOL nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-03 22:11 -0500
          Re: Verizon Email => AOL Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-04 04:50 +0000
            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
              Re: Verizon Email => AOL Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-04 06:17 +0000
                Re: Verizon Email => AOL Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2017-03-04 06:31 +0000
                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
                Re: Verizon Email => AOL Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-05 00:38 +0000
                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
                Re: Verizon Email => AOL Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2017-03-04 12:33 -0600
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  Re: Verizon Email => AOL John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> - 2017-03-03 23:23 -0500
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  Re: Verizon Email => AOL Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-04 07:50 +0000
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