Don't know where to start .........
Stella
A friend is with AOL, but the AOL software up is proving too confusing for the members of
the household, so I would like to alter their settings to create an AOL dial up, but email
etc runs through Outlook Express and Internet Explorer, and not the AOL software.
This is in the UK by the way.
So what I am needing is the info to create a dial up setting, and also the server info to
download email in to Outlook Express, newsgroup settings, etc
If anybody can help me, I will be eternally grateful (as will my friends!!)
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Shice Beoney
> I've come in to all these groups looking for an answer
>
> A friend is with AOL, but the AOL software up is proving too confusing for the members of
> the household, so I would like to alter their settings to create an AOL dial up, but email
> etc runs through Outlook Express and Internet Explorer, and not the AOL software.
>
> This is in the UK by the way.
>
> So what I am needing is the info to create a dial up setting, and also the server info to
> download email in to Outlook Express, newsgroup settings, etc
>
> If anybody can help me, I will be eternally grateful (as will my friends!!)
Can't be done with AOL.
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account be allowed to do the job." -Douglas Adams
Maruga
> I've come in to all these groups looking for an answer
>
> A friend is with AOL, but the AOL software up is proving too confusing for the members of
> the household, so I would like to alter their settings to create an AOL dial up, but email
> etc runs through Outlook Express and Internet Explorer, and not the AOL software.
>
> This is in the UK by the way.
>
> So what I am needing is the info to create a dial up setting, and also the server info to
> download email in to Outlook Express, newsgroup settings, etc
>
> If anybody can help me, I will be eternally grateful (as will my friends!!)
That is because it is "America" online, not "UK" online. I suggest you
find a vastly inferior local ISP as AOL's equivalent.
Mary
fatoomsh!
> find a vastly inferior local ISP as AOL's equivalent.
There is no inferior ISP that AOL in any country.
Pinocchio Poppins
> "Stella" <stella...@NOSPAM4MEblueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >So what I am needing is the info to create a dial up setting
Not with AOL. Windows's dial-up networking conforms to the PPP
standard, while AOL's doesn't.
> >and also the server info to download email in to Outlook Express
You'll need an IMAP or POP3 email provider for that.
> >newsgroup settings, etc
Free: http://groups.google.com/ (web based)
Pay: http://www.newsfeeds.com/ (NNTP based)
> If they want to use OE, they need a real ISP. AOL's email
> servers are proprietary, inferior, and you must use their software.
By "real ISP" do you mean "PPP access" or do you just mean Hotmail?
MSN Hotmail kinda-sorta works with Outlook Express. Or are you worried
about AOL blocking outgoing SMTP and IMAP/POP3 connections?
the wharf rat
Pinocchio Poppins <pino...@pineTAKEighOFFt.8EVERYm.cZIGom> wrote:
>Not with AOL. Windows's dial-up networking conforms to the PPP
>standard, while AOL's doesn't.
Ummm, that's because it doesn't use PPP.