Well, as much as I want to like and use Apple Mail it just doesn’t want to be liked. A few days ago I noticed some e-mail was gone. At first I figured it was probably user error (me) . But then I did some experimenting. I like using IMAP for my mailboxes so generally stick to accounts that support it so I can see the same mail everywhere. These days it’s AOL myEAddress. I have a couple of e-mail addresses there, but when I have e-mail that I want [...] Read the rest »
Configuring Thunderbird for AOL My eAddress
Here’s how to configure AOL My eAddress accounts in Thunderbird (at least what works for me). Version 1.5.0.10 is used for the screen shots. The rest of this post contains several screen shots and may take awhile to display, depending upon your connection. Read the rest »
Configuring Apple’s Mail.app for AOL My eAddress
Here’s how to configure AOL’s My eAddress accounts in Apple’s Mail.app (Well, at least what works for me). The rest of this post contains several screen shots and may take awhile to display, depending on your connection. Read the rest »
AOL My eAddress Update
In my original entry about AOL My eAddress I mentioned that it crashed both Firefox and Safari on my Mac Mini. Both Firefox and Safari work fine with the web mail on my iMac. The problem continues on my Mac Mini. It’s probably specific to my Mac Mini but at sometime in the future I’ll be rebuilding the Mini and I’ll try again. I haven’t heard of anyone else having similar problems but I’m curious to know what will happen on a fresh Mac Mini PPC install. Since both browsers [...] Read the rest »
XDrive – Not Ready For Backup on Mac or Win
I tried to give XDrive a spin on both Windows and OS X, concentrating on it’s backup abilities. But all I did was crash. On the Windows side the most I was able to back up before getting an error was 70MB. Each time I received a 2151 error. The error is discussed in this forum thread. Their recommended work around is to try the backup off hours, which for XDrive is during the day. Some responses said this didn’t work. I tried several backups over several nights and always [...] Read the rest »
XDrive – Free Disk Space From AOL
After signing up for the AOL e-mail I was looking around the AOL website. Now that they’ve been losing customers they seem to have adopted the business model of dropping their price to free but making up for it in volume. They’ve gone Google and will try to make it up in advertising revenue. Anyway, one thing that caught my eye was their XDrive offering. It’s 5GB of disk space for free. They didn’t want any additional info beyond what they collected for the e-mail account so I signed up [...] Read the rest »
AOL My eAddress
[Update: In December 2008 AOL made some changes to this service which I talk about here. Also, I never fully embraced this service. I still have the address and use it occasionally but it's not a important account. If it went away tomorrow I wouldn't miss it or the emails. While I never had any problems with this service I also never really felt AOL really wanted to support it.] Registration is straightforward. On the first screen you pick you .com or .net domain. If it’s available you can proceed [...] Read the rest »
