AOL now allows the use of Outlook and Eudora
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- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:42:42 -0700
Looks like access to AOL's email and other services just got a lot =
easier. Now the only question is, what took so long?=20
washingtonpost.com: AOL Subscribers Get E-Mail Flexibility
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AOL Subscribers Get E-Mail Flexibility
By Anick Jesdanun
The Associated Press
Monday, April 26, 2004; 8:59 AM
NEW YORK -- America Online subscribers can now check their e-mail using =
most third-party software, yet another sign of holes opening up in the =
Internet
dial-up leader's walled garden.
That means Internet users accustomed to Outlook, Outlook Express, =
Eudora and other programs needn't use AOL's proprietary software or use =
Web-based interface
to check their AOL electronic mail.
AOL quietly began supporting the open IMAP protocols on April 5 and =
formally launched it Wednesday.
"We've had members that have said, `I'm used to using Outlook at work =
or Eudora at my old ISP (Internet service provider), so why can't I do =
the same things?'"
said Roy Ben-Yoseph, AOL's director of e-mail products.
Before, only AOL's main software, its AOL Communicator and the =
AOL-owned Netscape browsers supported AOL e-mail. Instructions for =
using IMAP are at AOL
keywords "open mail access."
AOL also has been making more of its once-exclusive content available =
through its Web site. It has been shifting from its proprietary =
programming language,
known as "Rainman," to the hypertext markup language that powers the =
World Wide Web.
Among other major e-mail providers, Yahoo! also offers access through =
third-party software, starting at $19.99 a year. Yahoo uses the POP =
standard to do
so.
Microsoft's Hotmail and MSN still limit access to the Web and Microsoft =
software such as Outlook and Outlook Express.
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