Unsolved AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?
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So this just came in, and with the hopes of trying to avoid having to create an AOL account I hoping someone can shed some light.
A user here (exchange) is attempting to send a calendar invite to an AoL user. Clearly the email portion is making it through (I've checked the mail-flow).
So I'm assuming AoL doesn't except exchange calendar events? Can anyone confirm or shed some light.
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huh - that's interesting - I wonder how O365 handles Google email invites, and vice versa?
It would be the same problem you're having here with AOL. Assume the AOL user is using a web browser only to view/interact with AOL, how does AOL in a browser handle ICAL invites?
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My guess is that this all comes down to a lack of functionality in AOL and nothing more.
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@scottalanmiller said in AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?:
My guess is that this all comes down to a lack of functionality in AOL and nothing more.
I did not work in mail, but I can confirm this is true across the entire board. It's always been behind. When it comes to infrastructure or third party support, that always comes last, if at all; typically it's only by accident it even works. Attempts were made at making Instant Messenger 100% third party compatible, all four of them were cancelled. This is in addition to trying to make it independent of AOL all together, the best which came out of that was the AIM Enterprise Gateway ("developed" by Facetime), which companies didn't want to use because it still went through AOL, despite the fact AOL claimed it did not. I still have all the source code to that stuff, even though I probably am not supposed to.
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LOL one more reason to dump AOL completely - how do they even make money today?
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@Dashrender said in AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?:
LOL one more reason to dump AOL completely - how do they even make money today?
Same way that they always did, from people who just don't care.
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@scottalanmiller said in AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?:
@Dashrender said in AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?:
LOL one more reason to dump AOL completely - how do they even make money today?
Same way that they always did, from people who just don't care.
eh? I'm sure there are still people who don't look at their bank/checkbook statements that are paying for dialup that they ditched a decade ago (or where knowingly paying for it until a few years ago - i.e. one of my docs), but the can't really be surviving on that alone, can they?
So again I ask.. how do they make their money? Selling Ads? some widget?
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@Dashrender said in AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?:
@scottalanmiller said in AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?:
@Dashrender said in AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?:
LOL one more reason to dump AOL completely - how do they even make money today?
Same way that they always did, from people who just don't care.
eh? I'm sure there are still people who don't look at their bank/checkbook statements that are paying for dialup that they ditched a decade ago (or where knowingly paying for it until a few years ago - i.e. one of my docs), but the can't really be surviving on that alone, can they?
So again I ask.. how do they make their money? Selling Ads? some widget?
Pretty sure they are making their money on that alone.
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@scottalanmiller said in AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?:
@Dashrender said in AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?:
@scottalanmiller said in AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?:
@Dashrender said in AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?:
LOL one more reason to dump AOL completely - how do they even make money today?
Same way that they always did, from people who just don't care.
eh? I'm sure there are still people who don't look at their bank/checkbook statements that are paying for dialup that they ditched a decade ago (or where knowingly paying for it until a few years ago - i.e. one of my docs), but the can't really be surviving on that alone, can they?
So again I ask.. how do they make their money? Selling Ads? some widget?
Pretty sure they are making their money on that alone.
AOL isn't even an independent company any more, I wish I would've known they were for sale, I would've bought the name and IP, but maybe the new parent will eventually sell that. They've always had a lot more potential, they just squander the hell out of everything because their executive management really isn't that great at IT or development. Granted, some were developers, even Steve Case knew things, but they were stuck in the 80s.
Still not as bad as CompuServe which they bought out, which at the time only had numerical email addresses (based on PDP user IDs) and considered "vanity" email addresses a fad, yes seriously. I even remember having to deal with potential sign on processes of CompuServe users with numerical IDs, it broke tons of crap. And no, the ICQ situation didn't really help exactly, that was a different problem all together, the only thing it solved was dealing with screen names starting with numbers, then the next problem was the fact these numerical IDs had periods in them.
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@tonyshowoff said in AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?:
@scottalanmiller said in AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?:
@Dashrender said in AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?:
@scottalanmiller said in AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?:
@Dashrender said in AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?:
LOL one more reason to dump AOL completely - how do they even make money today?
Same way that they always did, from people who just don't care.
eh? I'm sure there are still people who don't look at their bank/checkbook statements that are paying for dialup that they ditched a decade ago (or where knowingly paying for it until a few years ago - i.e. one of my docs), but the can't really be surviving on that alone, can they?
So again I ask.. how do they make their money? Selling Ads? some widget?
Pretty sure they are making their money on that alone.
AOL isn't even an independent company any more, I wish I would've known they were for sale, I would've bought the name and IP, but maybe the new parent will eventually sell that. They've always had a lot more potential, they just squander the hell out of everything because their executive management really isn't that great at IT or development. Granted, some were developers, even Steve Case knew things, but they were stuck in the 80s.
Still not as bad as CompuServe which they bought out, which at the time only had numerical email addresses (based on PDP user IDs) and considered "vanity" email addresses a fad, yes seriously. I even remember having to deal with potential sign on processes of CompuServe users with numerical IDs, it broke tons of crap. And no, the ICQ situation didn't really help exactly, that was a different problem all together, the only thing it solved was dealing with screen names starting with numbers, then the next problem was the fact these numerical IDs had periods in them.
Speaking of ICQ, I just verified my login still works. crazy. I used the shit of of that service back int he day.
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I wonder if my ICQ is still out there. No idea what it was anymore.
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@scottalanmiller said in AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?:
I wonder if my ICQ is still out there. No idea what it was anymore.
I put the app on my iPhone (they have apps for everything apparently) and went through my friend list. all of there were still there. Only was had a status noted as "seen June 6, 2105." The rest had no info other than the names.
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@scottalanmiller said in AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?:
I wonder if my ICQ is still out there. No idea what it was anymore.
Also apparently, the 6 digit account numbers had some kind of internet fame in the early 2000s. There was huge hacking news about people stealing 6 digit ICQ accounts. No idea why.
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@JaredBusch said in AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?:
@scottalanmiller said in AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?:
I wonder if my ICQ is still out there. No idea what it was anymore.
Also apparently, the 6 digit account numbers had some kind of internet fame in the early 2000s. There was huge hacking news about people stealing 6 digit ICQ accounts. No idea why.
Because they were very short, I had two 6 digit ones, because I got them so long before that, I also had much shorter ones (the lowest was 1000 in the original ICQ protocol) I arbitrarily created by purging the original accounts.
Whether or not it still exists, the answer is: probably. Only suspended users and paying users are purged after about 10 years, so there are literally about 80 million accounts going unused across the entire infrastructure that will never be used again.