His AOL audio even inspired Nora Ephron’s 1998 Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan romantic comedy “You’ve Got Mail.” His voiceovers were included in the movie. Though AOL lost its stranglehold on the ...

AOL's home page is shown on a computer screen, Aug. 4, 2006, in New York. Associated Press file photo Elwood Edwards, who voiced America Online’s ever-present “You’ve got mail” greeting ...

“You’ve got mail.” As her dial-up internet buzzed to life, Kathleen loaded AOL to instant message an online friend, NY152, whom she’d met in an over-30s chatroom as ShopGirl. Their ...

Mr. Edwards gained a degree of fame with the release of the 1998 romantic comedy “You’ve Got Mail,” starring Tom Hanks and ...