AOL and Outlook
Chris Burnham
use Outlook or any other stand-alone client for e-mail.
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Regards,
Chris Burnham
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diana j wrote in message ...
Is it possible to use Outlook 97 to send and receive e-mail under an AOL
account? I have a friend with a Toshiba laptop and no CD drive. I've tried
to set her up for MSN but problems and missing files. So, since she really
wants the email graphics and rich text available through Outlook or OE, I
thought maybe she could use the Outlook 97 she has installed and the AOL she
already has. Can she and what settings? Or where to go to read up? Thank
you./Diana.
diana j
Chris Burnham wrote in message ...
Joe D. Deaver
Actually, that's not true. I used to have an e-mail client called
eFax (Global Village?) that would download and transmit AOL e-mail.
It worked ok, as long as you did not use it and AOL's client at the
same time, since the AOL reader got confused over what was read
already or not when you downloaded with another client.
I think I read somewhere that Outlook 2000 would support AOL mail.
Joe D. Deaver
jde...@eaze.net
Chris Burnham
to interface with its postoffice. AOL has been very secretive about their
POP3 and SMTP addresses, which means you need to use a MAPI client in order
to interface with AOL's servers. I've not heard about eFax, so I'll take
you at your word that it could download and transmit AOL mail. My guess is
the product was developed with a MAPI interface into AOL. Unfortunately,
other products don't have this interface. Based upon what you said, I'm
wondering if AOL has allowed MS to construct just such an interface for
OL2000.
We'll all find out soon enough, I guess.
Regards,
Chris Burnham
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Joe D. Deaver wrote in message <36337acc...@news.eaze.net>...
Mark Woodburn
has crashed and locked up the laptop twice. Requiring them to remove the
battery from the laptop to powerdown and reset. Only after an uninstall and
reinstall of Outlook / Office 97 would Outlook work again. This worked for
about 3 weeks. They called the other day to inform me it happen again.
Is there any know problem between the 2 packages? If so what are the fixes?
Mark
Joe D. Deaver
Ooops, I meant FocalPoint, not eFax. It's from Global Village
Communications, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA. I used it for a while to
download both my POP3 e-mail and AOL e-mail into the same mailbox. As
I said, once I started using it for the AOL mail, I could not
dependably use AOL flashmail download any longer. I stopped using it
about a year ago, before AOL 4.0. I am now using Outlook 98 for my
POP3 e-mail and AOL 4.0 for its own e-mail.
FocalPoint supposedly supports Compuserve mail, fax, and voice mail.
The company can be found on the web at http://www.globalvillage.com/
It works under Windows 3.1 and 95, but I had a few minor glitches when
I went to Windows 95.
Just FYI...
Joe D. Deaver
jde...@eaze.net
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998 20:19:46 -0500, "Chris Burnham"
Ken Slovak [MVP-Outlook]
this MS KB article:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q180/4/77.asp
You can also get this article by sending an E-mail with a subject of
"Q180477" (without the quotes) to msh...@microsoft.com.
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Ken Slovak
Mark Woodburn
Mark Woodburn wrote in message ...
Jerome J. Slote
I found Focal Point to be a frequent crasher. To use a 16-bit,
W95 "compatible" application for this sensitive function was pure
futility. No obvious evidence on the Global Village website that they
still sell Focal Point.
Email Connection, an Outlook competitor of sorts, still seems to
support AOL. Formerly from Connectsoft, now at email-connection.com
out of Redmond, Washington.
But I've very successfully been using the AOL Mapi Transport
withdrawn beta. Only problem I've ever had with it is its failure to
report properly any difficulties at the other end of the line. Since
Outlook also works well with WinFax/Talkworks 8.0, single-inbox
integrated communications has been a reality in my shop.
Given the third-party products produced by Focal Point and EMC,
the AOL transport scheme is probably not an impossible one to crack.
But AOL seems determined to control your user experience, show you ads
on your email retrieval, etc. There's probably no upside for
Microsoft to develop its own AOL transport. And third-parties are
caught between the giants. Leaving millions of AOL users with no good
way to use a single-inbox, MAPI-TAPI compatible communications
package. Truly absurd.
Jerome J. Slote
www.cooperstown.net
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