AOL Mail Settings | AOL IMAP and SMTP Settings

AOL Mail IMAP Setting

      A free web-based mail service given by AOL is known as AOL mail. It has various features that assist with customizing, organizing, and using your mail. IMAP is an Internet standard protocol used by email clients and it stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. IMAP is used to retrieve the email from other sources. Now let’s see about AOL mail IMAP setting.

The steps for AOL mail IMAP setting are given below:

• Set AOL Mail IMAP server address as aol.com.
• Set your full AOL Mail email address as AOL Mail IMAP user name. For AOL email, this is your AOL screen name plus “@aol.com,” like: “user@aol.com” (or @verizon.net, or @games.com, or @love.com).
• Set your AOL Mail password. AOL Mail IMAP password
• Set AOL Mail IMAP port to 993.
• Set AOL Mail IMAP TLS/SSL required to yes.

AOL Mail SMTP Settings

      SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. It is an Internet standard for electronic mail (email) transmission.  SMTP is used to send e-mail messages between servers. Most e-mail systems that send mail over the Internet use SMTP to send messages from one server to another.

• Set SMTP Outgoing Server Address as aol.com
• Set SMTP port to 587
• Set SMTP security to STARTTLS
• Set your full AOL Mail email address as SMTP Username. like: “user@aol.com” (or @verizon.net, or @games.com, or @love.com)
• Set Your AOL Mail password as SMTP password.

Here the steps for manual setup of AOL mail using IMAP and SMTP on the Android phone are given below:

1. Start by choosing the Mail icon from your applications screen. And then put the email address and email password. Select Manual Setup
   
2. Choose IMAP
   
   
3. If you have chosen IMAPmake sure to enter the below settings and click Next

• Set IMAP Server as imap.aol.com
• Set Security type to None
• Set Port to 143 for IMAP
  • Secure – Port: 993 and Security Type: SSL/TLS (Accept all certificates)
  • Insecure – Port: 143 and Security Type: None (Accept all certificates)
    

4. Enter the below outgoing SMTP Settings for AOL.CO.UK and click Select Next

• Set SMTP Server as smtp.aol.com
• Set Security type to None
• Set Port to 587 for outgoing SMTP
  • Outgoing (SMTP) Secure = Port: 465 for and Security Type: SSL/TLS (Accept all certificates)
  • Outgoing (SMTP roaming server) Secure = Port: 587 and Security Type: SSL/TLS (Accept all certificates)
  • Outgoing (SMTP) = Port: 25 and Security Type: None (Accept all certificates)
  • Outgoing (SMTP roaming server) Insecure = Port: 587 and Security Type: None (Accept all certificates)
    

5. Select Done. Now You are ready to use your email account on your Android phone

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Here the steps for manual setup of AOL mail using IMAP and SMTP on the Apple iPhone phone are given below:

1. Choose the Settings icon on your home screen
2. Select Mail
   
   
3. Select Accounts
   
   
4. Select Add Account
   
   
5. Choose Other from the menu
   
6. Choose Add Mail Account
   
   
7. Now put your Name, Email & Password and then click Next
8. Choose Scroll down to Incoming Mail Server and put all the necessary details, do the same for Outgoing Mail Server and then select Next.

• Make sure that User Name is the full email address. User Name and Password are the same for both Incoming & Outgoing servers.
• Set Incoming Mail Server Host Name as imap.aol.com
• Set Outgoing Mail Server Host Name as smtp.aol.com
  

9. You may receive a prompt asking you to verify the incoming and outgoing servers – you can click continue for each or tap “Details” and then tap “Trust”

10. Save it

11. Choose the new account that you’ve just created

12. Choose the SMTP server

13. Check the SMTP settings and click Done

• Outgoing Mail Server Host Name for AOL.CO.UK is smtp.aol.com
• Set full AOL.CO.UK email address as username
• Set your email password as password
• Set SSL to On. You can also turn it off and use the correct Port number as below.
  • Outgoing (SMTP) Secure = Port: 465 for and Security Type: SSL/TLS (Accept all certificates)
  • Outgoing (SMTP roaming server) Secure = Port: 587 and Security Type: SSL/TLS (Accept all certificates)
  • Outgoing (SMTP) = Port: 25 and Security Type: None (Accept all certificates)
  • Outgoing (SMTP roaming server) Insecure = Port: 587 and Security Type: None (Accept all certificates)
• Authentication is Password
• Set Server Port to 587
  

Congratulations! Now you are ready to use your email account on your iPhone.