Transferring email folders from AOL to BT.

I'm afraid the only way to forward the messages to your new account.

There are two basically different ways of handling email:
1. Server based. All emails are on a server with your provider. You can see them everywhere you want via a browser. Good examples: hotmail, gmail (microsoft and google keep them for you).
2. Client based. All emails sent to you are stored on a server with your provider temporarily until you download them to an email archive on your PC. After that, they are on your PC and you can do with them what you want, but only on your own PC. They aren't at the provider anymore.

With #1, they are on the server until you delete them. No standardized way to get them to another server (at your new provider), only forwarding.
With #2 they are on your PC, and it doesn't matter at all where they came from and where new emails are coming from.

I'm afraid AOL is an example of #1.

Forwarding is easy - in principle - but if you've got 1000+ mails and you need to do it individually via your browser, maybe it's a little bit boring also. And by forwarding you lose the sender information in the mail folders, because all forwarded mails are sent by you.

Hope this helps.


Kees