Windows 10: advanced setup in windows 10 for verizon/aol e-mail in windows mail

i have had verizon/aol e-mail as my windows e-mail several times on my windows 10 lenova thinkpad computer but over the past year or so it gets glitzy and stops working . I go back reset it back up, works for awhile and then stops working and as before i get the message "your settings are out of date".i have tried several times in the last 6 months to reset it back up but have had no success [strangely enough, on the aol mail app on my ipad pro and samsung phone it works!]i have even tried advanced set-up but i do not see a spot to input the ingoing and outgoing server port numbers....i had

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Outlook and Verizon Mail on AOL

AOL has merged with Yahoo now both belong to Oath. My rarely used AOL mail however is working OK with IMAP on Thunderbird so must be just Verizon related.

All AOL based Email, that's AOL, AOLUK, Aim, Compuserve, Netscape and Verizon now goes through mx-aol.mail.gm0.yahoodns.net: Which is probably why it keeps throwing up the Yahoo stuff?

 

E mail problem

Hello
This is a weird thing going on with my wife's e mail a little hard to explain.
We are with time.Warner/spectrum
I have asked at there sites and searched on lone put no real info.
Windows 10 e mail app is Windows live mail

Ok here we go
I set it all up ports and security and ports it is all working
DownLoads the required folders sends and recieves mail all is good.
It will be working for days even weeks and then all of a sudden the whole account is gone.
All folders emails saved and deleted all gone.
This have happened a few times now at least 4 or 5 times 2 times in the last month.

Is there a virus or malware or something that is doing this. ?
Every time it has happened I do change the password.
She has another account with verizon that still works and have np with.

Any suggestions or advise please
Thaks
Ruben

 

Windows Mail setup for Verizon (now AOL) account

There is a solution reported here in Verizon forums to try:

https://forums.verizon.com/t5/Verizon-net-Email...

I also found this guide for problems with AOL mail:

https://help.aol.com/articles/why-cant-i-access...