[GreenKeys] Two Solutions to AOL Problems Posting to Greenkeys

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

In a message dated 3/11/2007 8:10:44 PM Central Standard Time, wa3frp at aol.com 
writes: 
> 1.  If you are using the AOL application, go to write mail and with the 
> cursor in the message field, right click your mouse and look to the 
> bottom of the panel that gets displayed.  You will probably see 
> "Compose as plain text". this should fix the problem. Unfortunately, 
> html appears to be the default mode, so it appears you will have to 
> perform this step every time you send a message to Greenkeys.

This isn't an option for Compuserve but apparently not necessary anyway.

> 
> 2.  You can also use a brower and go to URL www.aol.com and sign in. 
> Once signed in, go to mail and you should be able to post message with 
> no problems.  Sending mail via a browser to via www.aol.com seems to 
> send only in text mode.  html does not appear to be an option here.
> 

This is called Web Mail (several other providers also have it).  I use Web 
Mail whenever I'm out of town and using someone else's machine and Internet 
connection.  But before using Web Mail (either AOL or Compuserve/AOL), you should 
be aware of two things.  One is that the mail manager used is whatever is the 
default on the machine you are using.  Web mail itself has no mail manager.  
The second is that you cannot save mail sent (unless you CC another account) or 
read through Web Mail.  After whatever the dwell time is set to in your main 
account, it will be permanently deleted.  So far as I have ever been able to 
determine, there is no way in which to download it to the local machine as can 
be done using the standard manager.

Robert Downs - Houston
<http://www.wa5cab.com> (Web Store)
MVPA 9480
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<wa5cab at houston.rr.com> (Backup email)