<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1255"><html> <head> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="IncrediMail 1.0">  </head> <BODY background="" bgColor=#ffffff style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0px 0px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN: 1px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" scroll=yes ORGYPOS="0" X-FVER="2.0"> <TABLE border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 id=INCREDIMAINTABLE width="95%"> <TR> <TD id=INCREDITEXTREGION width="100%" style="PADDING-RIGHT: 7px; PADDING-LEFT: 7px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" > <DIV>> Hi !!<BR>><BR>> As for a while, I've been searching for a way to send/receive e-mails from<BR>> AOL<BR>> (I mean through AOL servers not their web-site)<BR>><BR>> I just wanted to ask you whether I can exploit the Jabber open-source<BR>> resources<BR>> to do this, or it's a totally different story. if so, i'd be highly glad if<BR>> you could lead me into knowledge base or code that demonstrates such<BR>> capabilities.<BR>><BR>> I have tried to investigate the AOL protocol quite a lot, and have gained a<BR>> little experience about it, but it's far from being good enough, especially<BR>> for picture/graphics embedded in the email body. the AOL protocol is far<BR>> vague in this situation. (as it is obsucre in general, on second thought...)<BR>><BR>> concepts like "Tokens" (for operations), and "FDO" (compression methods..)<BR>> are common in AOL protocol but are not clear enough to work with.<BR>> (all AOL packets are something like "Z**....."<BR>><BR>> I know that in order to send AIM one has to deal with the above kinds of<BR>> packets<BR>> Did you manage to do it? or found other way that can bypass AOL horrible<BR>> transport methods?<BR>><BR>> Thanx very much<BR>> Yuval Gross<BR>> Software Engineer<BR>><BR>> P.S:<BR>> the target AOL server which I know is "AmericaOnline.aol.ocm:5190"<BR>> I've noticed something about "OSCAR" farm servers, is there any significant difference?<BR></DIV></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD id=INCREDIFOOTER width="100%"> <TABLE cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width="100%"> <TR> <TD width="100%"></TD> <TD align=middle id=INCREDISOUND vAlign=bottom></TD> <TD align=middle id=INCREDIANIM vAlign=bottom></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </html>