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<blockquote data-quote="Deckyon" data-source="post: 1224778" data-attributes="member: 197651"><p>Just from some person experience of swapping to new machines and such both for myself and my parents (in their 60s/70's), it is a good time to make habit changes as well.</p><p></p><p>For instance, AOL is not a portable email server. Once you pull the email down, it is up to the new client to attempt to import the old emails. Make the change over to something fully on the web like Gmail. You can even set up a forward in AOL to have all their incoming mail forwarded automatically to the new account. Also, on the new account you can set the "From" to be any email account, including the AOL account. This way, to everyone else, it still looks like the emails are coming from the AOL account and no one has to change email addresses.</p><p></p><p>Again, when moving to a new computer from an old, it is a great time to make other changes. Especially when moving from different operating systems. But in the future, when it comes time to move to yet another computer, that all important email will already be on the web with no need to import.</p><p></p><p>Also, just an FYI, stay away from using POP3 email at all costs and find one that supports IMAP (like Gmail.) That way, nothing gets permanently downloaded to the computer.</p><p></p><p>It has made light-years' of difference with dealing with my parents' switches, making my life so much easier to swap them out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deckyon, post: 1224778, member: 197651"] Just from some person experience of swapping to new machines and such both for myself and my parents (in their 60s/70's), it is a good time to make habit changes as well. For instance, AOL is not a portable email server. Once you pull the email down, it is up to the new client to attempt to import the old emails. Make the change over to something fully on the web like Gmail. You can even set up a forward in AOL to have all their incoming mail forwarded automatically to the new account. Also, on the new account you can set the "From" to be any email account, including the AOL account. This way, to everyone else, it still looks like the emails are coming from the AOL account and no one has to change email addresses. Again, when moving to a new computer from an old, it is a great time to make other changes. Especially when moving from different operating systems. But in the future, when it comes time to move to yet another computer, that all important email will already be on the web with no need to import. Also, just an FYI, stay away from using POP3 email at all costs and find one that supports IMAP (like Gmail.) That way, nothing gets permanently downloaded to the computer. It has made light-years' of difference with dealing with my parents' switches, making my life so much easier to swap them out. [/QUOTE]
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