Importing AOL 3 E-Mail to AOL 9

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Hi,

I am stuck at the moment, a friend of mine has bought a new computer, with aol 9.0, and wants to import his old e-mail from AOL 3 off of his old one, he has the files on CD, and from what i can see AOL 3 stored his e-mail in a .er file which is essentially a giant text file. Unfortunately, i cant find any way of importing them into AOL 9, and google ahs been less than helpful.

Anyone have any ideas which dont involve installing AOL 3?
 
nb- said:
Hi,

I am stuck at the moment, a friend of mine has bought a new computer, with aol 9.0, and wants to import his old e-mail from AOL 3 off of his old one, he has the files on CD, and from what i can see AOL 3 stored his e-mail in a .er file which is essentially a giant text file. Unfortunately, i cant find any way of importing them into AOL 9, and google ahs been less than helpful.

Anyone have any ideas which dont involve installing AOL 3?
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Here's the first thing that comes into my head: upgrade AOL on his old comp, version by version, until you reach something that you can import into AOL 9. I know, it sounds rough, but that's my initial reaction.
 
i think aol keeps all their stuff online rather than on your computer... so ur friend can just log in on aol9.0 and see it.. i could be very wrong ;p

or just email it to himself ;x
 
todlerix said:
i think aol keeps all their stuff online rather than on your computer... so ur friend can just log in on aol9.0 and see it.. i could be very wrong ;p

or just email it to himself ;x
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IIRC they don't keep emails online.
 
evildre said:
Here's the first thing that comes into my head: upgrade AOL on his old comp, version by version, until you reach something that you can import into AOL 9. I know, it sounds rough, but that's my initial reaction.
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That though crossed my mind to, but unfortunatly the old computer is no more, all i have is the files, so thats not an option.

todlerix said:
i think aol keeps all their stuff online rather than on your computer... so ur friend can just log in on aol9.0 and see it.. i could be very wrong ;p

or just email it to himself ;x
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Problem 1, there are hundreds of them, and problem 2 - aol dosent keep all its e-mails on line. :(.

The non-ideal solution i have been thinking of is seeing if somthing like thunderbird can import the old e-mails.
 
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