Hi Julie I may be wrong and it's a while ago now since I used it but as i recall it, no, you can't use OE to collect your emails with AOL. They use their own systems for everything. Can anyone else confirm this ? Gareth List Administrator for Dyfed, CGN & PEM. Lookup Exchange http://www.johngareth.freeserve.co.uk/lookup.html Help Page http://www.johngareth.freeserve.co.uk/hicks.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julie Preston" <[email protected]> To: "Gareth" <W/[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 6:14 PM Subject: Re: [WLS-CARDIGANSHIRE] Re: Digest problems > Gareth and Lyn, > > I may be all wet on this, but can't anyone use the Outlook Express software > package for email, no matter what isp you use? > > Julie Preston > [email protected] > > Gareth wrote: > > > I believe this is because Lyn is with Aol who do everything their own way > > [ as I remember from my own Aol days anyway] and the digest is presented > as > > one long message ,with divisions but requiring one to scroll through each > > one "in its entirety" just to reach the next one. > > Not like with Outlook Express which presents each message as a separate > > clickable item from a menu. > > > >