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Apple Mail.App Doesn’t Give Me Confidence

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 [...]

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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.
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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.
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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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