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If you're having problems accessing AOL Mail through third-party applications, such as Outlook or Thunderbird, try troubleshooting with these suggestions to make sure your email works where and when you need it. Update your password
Most email software and applications have an account settings menu where you'll need to update the IMAP or POP3 settings. When entering your account info, make sure you use your full email address, including @aol.com, and that the SSL encryption is enabled for incoming and outgoing mail.
Use the IMAP settings below to download your email from AOL Mail into a third-party email app, like Thunderbird, Outlook, or Mac Mail. For accounts with a lot of content, it can take several days or longer to download everything.
A special mode for better handling the non-standard implementation of IMAP in Gmail may optionally be enabled in a configuration file. [6] When configured to store mail locally, OfflineIMAP uses the Maildir format. [3] Unix mail boxes support may be added in the future, though currently it is not implemented. [6]
EAS used WebDAV to connect to a user's mailbox and added the ability to sync non-default calendar and contacts folders. Always Up To Date (AUTD) [ 5 ] was implemented as a way to let a device know if there was new information for it and Short Message Service ( SMS ) was the technology used to deliver this information to the device.
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source [8] email client that also functions as a personal information manager with a calendar and contactbook, as well as an RSS feed reader, chat client (IRC/XMPP/Matrix), and news client.
1. Sign into AOL Mail on a web browser. 2. Compose an email and add your own email address in the "To" field. 3. Send the email and check if it arrives.
While some clients and servers preferentially use vendor-specific, proprietary protocols, [5] almost all support POP and IMAP for retrieving email – allowing free choice between many e-mail clients such as Pegasus Mail or Mozilla Thunderbird to access these servers, and allows the clients to be used with other servers.