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> > > > AOL does offer POP mail.  I might try him with Sylpheed.
> >
> > Opera 9.63 won't log in - unspecified error.  8.54 worked yesterday.

I found another way to read AOL mail without IE or Firefox.

AOL rejects Windows Opera 8.54 and 9.63 and even Enigma (an IE add-on).
It works with IE and Firefox/Mozilla.

It accepts linux Opera 8.54 (which identifies as Mozilla) but not 9.63 
(which identifies as Opera) even if I set site preferences to identify as 
Firefox, or IE, or mask as one of these.

Someone using Opera suggested web2mail.com, where you enter your email 
address, password, and type in a graphical 'code'.  This worked with Opera 
9.63 in linux the first time to see my AOL mail, but the next time I got a 
different page, and I had to sign up, and proceed as follows:

'Sign in' with your web2mail login and password

Click on 'My email' at page top

Tab to the second frame, Enter to 'Get mail' (which gets mail already in 
the inbox at web2mail).

You see any pop mail already downloaded to this addres, which you can read 
or delete.  To get more mail:

Fill in AOL or other pop mail login and server and password info:

Email user name - mylogin AT aol.com
Email server address - pop.aol.com
Email password - myaolpassword

X Leave Messages on server   Click on 'get mail' (which downloads pop mail 
from aol to the web2mail inbox, where it remains)

It also worked once with links2 graphical (I needed to see the code and 
sign in and read my aol mail), then I only got the home page, but after I 
signed up (with Opera, choosing login and password for web2mail) I could 
then get my aol mail as pop mail with links2 nongraphical.

Deleting opera cookies for this site did not restore the original page 
which was usable without signing up.

Non-javascript links1 produced the original page asking for my aol email 
address, but without the code, and I could not sign in to read my mail as 
a non-member.  I could not access their sign-in page for members.  Lynx 
won't work either, or dillo.

The page uses javascript, which apparently links2 can handle.

Free fastmail.fm works without all this runaround but IMAP only.  $5/year 
also gets you POP mail and more space.

Gmail can be made to support IMAP.  AOL probably not.

Is there some free pop to webmail site without javascript to use with 
links1?

e-mail anywhere requires javascript

Sindi