Dumb question about AOL mail

I do t know about forwarding, but alternately you could set up his gmail to fetch any aol emails.

Go to "Settings" then "accounts and import"

https://www.ehow.com/how_4923655_forward-aol-mail.html

I want to thank you for starting this thread. I still use my aol address as my main email contact because I've had it for over twenty years. I do get kidded a lot about it but is there any reason other than that to suggest I change?

Well the main reason I wanted my dad to chain is for some reason they won't let him send any attachments that are of much size regardless

Quite ridiculous In this day and age. And I think Google's format is better

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I still use my aol address as my main email contact because I've had it for over twenty years. I do get kidded a lot about it but is there any reason other than that to suggest I change?

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Just a few reasons gmail beats AOL mail:

1. Labels absolutely beat the living shite out of folders, especially when combined with gmail's very powerful filtering system.

2. The powerful filtering system. I have tons of filters set up for emails that I will probably need, but I want to read them when I want to, not when they come in. So they skip the inbox, get labeled appropriately, and sit there waiting for me rather than being a distraction and cluttering the inbox.

3. Ads are less intrusive

4. Apparently, AOL limits you to 1000 messages in your inbox, 4000 old messages and 4000 sent messages. I delete worthless emails, but anything that I might ever need again, I just archive (like aol's old messages). I currently have almost 14k messages in my gmail account, and with google's search powering it I always find what I want quickly.

5. Gmail puts handy buttons on messages right in the inbox view for things like orders or tracking packages.



I guess I would summarize the difference like this: if you just read and write email, you can stick with aol... if you want to do email in a better way, switch to gmail.