anyone design sites for AOL users? (re - pop/smtp stuff)

[Axel Foley]

I've designed a website for a friend who's on AOL.

I've purchased a hosting package and set up email accounts for them. On a
PC, when you set up a new email account, you enter the POP3 / SMTP servers +
username + password into your default mail client.

My question is this: is this "do-able" in AOL?

I used to use AOL eons ago, but englightened I was and gone is AOL. (jeez i
miss those mindless chatrooms...!)

anyway folks / anybody know how an AOL client handles "other" mail servers?
Or is my client stuck with web-based email?

thanks for any hints...

Axel

 

[Toby A Inkster]

I've purchased a hosting package and set up email accounts for them. On a
PC, when you set up a new email account, you enter the POP3 / SMTP servers +
username + password into your default mail client.

My question is this: is this "do-able" in AOL?

AOL doesn't have any POP3 or SMTP servers. Their proprietary clients
communicate with their proprietary servers by a proprietary protocol.

 

[Toby A Inkster]

I've purchased a hosting package and set up email accounts for them. On a
PC, when you set up a new email account, you enter the POP3 / SMTP servers +
username + password into your default mail client.

PS: Of course your client can always download another mail client such as
Thunderbird <http://mozilla.org/>, Eudora <http://eudora.com/> or M2
<http://opera.com/> and use that to communicate with your servers.

 

[Axel Foley]

PS: Of course your client can always download another mail client such as
Thunderbird <http://mozilla.org/>, Eudora <http://eudora.com/> or M2
<http://opera.com/> and use that to communicate with your servers.

Will these mail clients successfully fetch POP3 mail thru the AOL
connection? Don't mail servers route thru specific ports? What I'm getting
at is this: will the AOL connection allow the normal TCP/UDP ports to be
accessed that are used for email on "normal" machines?

Axel

 

[Toby A Inkster]

Will these mail clients successfully fetch POP3 mail thru the AOL
connection? Don't mail servers route thru specific ports? What I'm getting
at is this: will the AOL connection allow the normal TCP/UDP ports to be
accessed that are used for email on "normal" machines?

As long as you're not trying to connect to *AOL's* servers they will work
fine.

 

[Adam Bailey]

AOL doesn't have any POP3 or SMTP servers. Their proprietary clients
communicate with their proprietary servers by a proprietary protocol.

This is no longer true (although AOL has IMAP, not POP3).

http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/#3rd-party