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[Damon Register <damon.w.register@xxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The mail is easy: create a local imap server, and export all old mail to 
> it from the virtual machine. Then import all that mail it TB, or just 
> leave it there. The addresses... dunno.
This is great news.  You just gave me an idea how to solve the problem
of getting my father off AOL.  I have him setup with Thunderbird and with
a little work I got his AOL address list exported and manually converted.
With some googling I found there were commercially available tools to
export AOL data but only one free address list converter that I could
find.  That free tool didn't help because it relied on a save feature
that was removed from AOL (no doubt AOL removed it to make it harder to
leave).  We both thought it was silly to buy a tool that is used only
one time so I hadn't figured out a way to get his old AOL mail into
Thunderbird.  Using your IMAP method, I might be able to get his AOL
mail into Thunderbird.

The instructions for getting Thunderbird setup with AOL say to select
IMAP for the server type.  If I understand correctly, I just use his
old AOL client to drag locally stored messages back to the inbox which
is on the AOL IMAP server.  Then I just go to Thunderbird and retrieve
the messages from the AOL IMAP server.  I will try this tonight if I
have the chance.

Damon Register
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