MIME, Eudora and AOL - Steven J. Coker
Subject: MIME, Eudora and AOL
From: Steven J. Coker
Date: July 23, 1998

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Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 16:09:54 -0400
From:  "Teresa M. Rozich" 
Subject: Re: MIME, Eudora and AOL

No, AOL users can NOT choose their own email program.  Also, if they receive a
MIME file, they need to have a MIME decoder program.  Many are available on
the internet free.  I use one named Omega.  very simple to use.  Just download
the file, and open it using Omega.

Teresa Maro Rozich
Kimball Genealogy Online http://www.maro.net/teresa/kimbell

-----Original Message-----
From: Malcolm Bebb 
Date: Sunday, April 05, 1998 2:43 PM
Subject: MIME, Eudora and AOL

All,
>
>I don't know if AOL users get to choose what email software they use. I use
>Eudora, which handles digests as one mail, allows filtering and other nice
>things, and is free (Eudora Lite) from http://www.qualcomm.com.
>I filter list posts, digests and admin mail into different folders so I can
>quickly see what's happening.
>(There are other free email programs e.g people speak well of Pegasus but I
>don't know it.)
>
>The advice I've been given for AOL users getting MIME (.MIM) messages they
>can't open is to simply download the file and open it with a word
>processor. Or rename it to whatever.txt first, then use a WP or text
>editor. Apparently it works fine.

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