AOL Launches New Web Mail Features

By Ed Oswald | Published April 12, 2006, 9:09 PM

AOL rolled out new features earlier this week to its AOL and AIM Mail, saying it plans to continue to improve the service through the upcoming months. Among the enhancements are "quick actions," which allow the user to perform common actions with one click, and new panels that allow for simultaneous access of Calendar, Address Book and Tasks while working within the AIM or AOL Mail client.

The new Web mail client also provides tighter integration with AOL Calendar, allowing for users to create and manage events or tasks within the service. Finally, AOL Mail will now allow for the linking of up to eight AOL or AIM email addresses to a single mail account, without having to log in separately to check each account. Each address would be displayed in a pull down menu with the number of e-mail messages, AOL said.

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I'm shocked.....this isn't half bad.

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Email needs less bloat & less spam, gmail offers this so SCREW YOU AOL!

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Email needs less bloat & less spam, gmail offers this so...
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Bloat? Where? Spam? where? Please, please, where is it?

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gmail is the best. Like that you can send from multiple email accounts!!

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I just signed in to see how it is. No real big deal.

Everyone is still behind Yahoo! Mail Beta.

;)

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Everyone is still behind Yahoo! Mail Beta?

Ha, joke of the day, I tell ya. LOL

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Yea.. but Yahoo Mail Beta's behind Gmail, which has been in operation for about 2 years.

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Maybe so, but Google is the devil and I refuse to use any of their product.

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No, Google is the devil, Microsoft is the antichrist. Or is that last week's assessment?

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Fight the power man....

...even if it's for no other reason than to fight the power. ;P

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:D

I hate everything Google does.

I'm beginning to hate everything Microsoft does too.

I'm finding that I'll have nothing left to do but go buy an Apple!

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Apople has DRM and charges too much for their products.

They're Evil.

Muahahahaha!

Now what are you gonna do? Back to CP/M with you.

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