On the subject of AOHell.

EuroPG only accepts plain text messages. Any other format appears along with all the control codes and can be virtually unreadable. For that reason, when using a service provider's email such as AOL 6.0 email, please use one of the following solutions:

Solution 1: Their answer--Use AOL Mail on the web site: http://www.aol.com Simple--after you hit the mailbox picture and follow the directions of listing your e-mail address and password. AOL Mail on the Web sends mail as plain text only!

Solution 2: When communicating with Internet recipients who are not using an email program capable of selecting which MIME section to view, an AOL 6.0 user can turn off the HTML by taking the following steps exactly as described:

• 1.Change your global email preferences (only needs to be done once):
  • a.) Go to Keyword: Preferences (or choose Preferences from the Settings menu on the AOL 6.0 toolbar).
  • b.) Click on Font, Text, & Graphics Preferences.
  • c.) Click on the Reset button at the bottom of the resulting window. Do not make any changes in the Font Preferences area of the window.
  • d.) Click on the Save button.
• 2.Change a specific email to plain text (must be done for every email):
  • a.) Compose and address the email as desired.
  • b.) Choose Select All from the Edit menu to highlight the entire message.
  • c.) With the mouse arrow somewhere over the highlighted text, click the Right mouse button, revealing a contextual menu (AKA Right-Click).
  • d.) Choose Normal from the Text menu.
  • e.) Taking care not to make any further changes to the message, send it.

Note that changing the text to normal will eliminate the "blue bar" quoted text indicator, but will not remove some HTML elements of the quoted text. The entire quoted section must be deleted (or simply not quoted in the first place), followed by the re-entry of the text quoted manually, prior to changing the text to normal.

Changing the text to normal will also eliminate any styled text that would have been seen by AOL recipients of the message, which cannot be re-added. Testing also suggests that messages with hyperlinks cannot be converted to normal text, requiring the prior removal of the link.

If this process is unappealing, other options include reverting to a prior version of AOL or using AOL Mail via the web.

Parallel solution: Boot from Mandrake 7.1 CD-ROM. Manually partition including a delete of the existing Windows one. Problem solved.