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jdh
May 8th, 2007, 05:45 PM
Google,AOL,AIM POP3/IMAP mail preview on Earthlink

Earthlink offers free Earthlink ID's (not free Internet access)

With free Earthlink ID you get free personalized start page / portal supporting:

1. mail preview of Google, AOL, or AIM email

2. RSS news/blog feed reader

plus the usual start page stuff.

The RSS feed reader is decent, but I still think I like Yahoo's a little better.

http://start.earthlink.net or

http://my.earthlink.net

Earthlink just recently redesigned their start page layout and features. Less cluttered now (maybe influenced by competition from Google?).

I decided not to continue using the Google POP3 mail preview tho' since I'm not sure if I want to give Earthlink access to cookies on my PC containing my Google account ID & PW.

I suppose the AOL or AIM mail preview might not be so bad since it would avoid having to fire up Thunderbird to use IMAP to open mail folders on AOL. I hate the AOL / AIM web view of mail since it's so slow on dial up compared to IMAP on Thunderbird.

DH

Judy G. Russell
May 8th, 2007, 07:36 PM
With free Earthlink ID you get free personalized start page / portal supportingThanks, but I'd rather roll my own.

jdh
May 9th, 2007, 09:43 AM
Thanks, but I'd rather roll my own. Just wondering if you meant that you built your own "start page" either on your PC or on the web with hand crafted HTML and Javascript or were you speaking in generalities? If so, curious as to what tools you use (beside notepad.exe and ftp.exe)?

DH