And all the kings horses - cannot make AOL Forward email !!

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1992 - 1995 pretty much the time when I can recall one had to pay for email access. Or so I thought.

Recently I meet a friend who still uses AOL mail and pays 20$ a month for the same. Sure she can also use the Spyware feature, Kid feature and the fancy yellow running man feature (who even uses the 100 features on that) or even the "Dial-from-anywhere in the world" if u travel feature. But then she has broadband at home with Comcast and does not use the other fancy features at all!

So a crusade weekend - it was, trying to get her to convert to the normal world - where email is free and these days with storage spaces in GBs and not MBs anymore.

And then I realise AOL doesnt let email-forwarding .... or even Address book export. When was the last time that was impossible !!! In fact the only solution I can think of is our own MSOutlook with some forward rules with a replyto: <different email address> solution.

User "Lock-ins" such as these are terrible for the end-user. Especially for the end-users who are technologically challenged - or plain frustrated/scared of technology. Obviously we have a long way to go to get the end-user perspectives.

Fancy words aside - All the kings horses and all the king's men could not make me successfuly forward AOL Mail to another one - again !

Anyone with solutions - pls do reply. Thank you in advance.

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  • Anonymous
    July 06, 2005
    evedently you don't have a hotmail account.

  • Anonymous
    July 06, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    July 06, 2005
    Try this out, probably worked for me.

    http://www.sspi-software.com/mailfwd_win.html

  • Anonymous
    July 06, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    April 25, 2006
    Can you please help me?  I have AOL and want to have it forwarded to gmail.  I was getting the same errors as you described above, but i do not have comcast and lost you in your explaination. (Not familiar with smtp at all).  I would greatly appreciate any advice you could give.  Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    April 24, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    September 07, 2007
    It worked like a charm thanks a lot I can forward emails now

  • Anonymous
    September 19, 2007
    Any idea on how to do this for a Mac (running OS X) and/or free?  

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