[CUBE] Get Off The AOL

[Alan Thompson]

strong words.  strong opinion.  i respect that.  but it's all about 
choice though.  aol's email client is pretty bad, but it sounds like it 
has been working for him all this time, and it's not like unix clients, 
or earthlink's (probably eudora), etc. don't fail to blow up at times 
as well.

the problem is that aol's mail file format seems to be undecipherable, 
which is the point, i guess, from AOLs point of view.  problem is 
importing it, and or fixing a corrupted mail file.  imap folders and 
mail spool files are simple flat files - even mbox, and other mail 
formats, but i'm betting the random ascii characters in the email file 
is either the corruption, or the key to what makes AOLs mail file 
format proprietary.

--alan