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    AOL mail and Windows Mail

    I am having a lot of problems with 2 friends who use AOL. Whenever they send me an email with an attachment, I have to go through several "Do you wish to Open" messages when I click on the attachment. I have tried to explain that you should only forward the attachment that opens, but they both say that with AOL it works differently and you just scroll down to read or open the attachment.
    But I get the complete history with all the previous names & email addresses on, sometime 5 or 6 "opens" before I get to the actual attachment. Is there any way to resolve this? It was the same when using Outlook. Hope this is the correct forum, but if not apologies, as I am a newbie.

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    Re: AOL mail and Windows Mail

    aol is designed not to play well with others.

    if they persist in using it, then it will continue to make the rest of the internet's life a misery.

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    Re: AOL mail and Windows Mail

    You need to remember that AOL is a content service - not 'just' and ISP - so when you log onto AOL, you are logging onto their network, which has a portal to the big wide internet. (This is one reason why the MTU settings are different for AOL users).

    AOL's e mail system is also proprietary, so when you send e mail from AOL user to AOL user, it doesn't traverse the internet - it only traverses AOL's network via their e mail server. An AOL to 'standard' email passes through the AOL gateway and undergoes translation to the standard SMTP RFC format that can traverse the internet.

    The nearest analogy is that AOL mail is similary to 'standard' mail with HTML enabled, as AOL mail is read in their browser (which is Mosaic based) and so the process of attachement and encoding is resolved that way.

    It is this that makes AOL mail different, and there is probably nothing that they (or you) can do about it (other than them moving from AOL or you moving to AOL)
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    Re: AOL mail and Windows Mail

    Thanks for the explanations, I have tried to persuade them to use Google mail or Yahoo, but they are happy with the world of AOL. Personally I think it's pants.

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