Windows 10: Getting AOL Mail to work with Win 10 mail App

If AOL Mail is not working in win 10 Mail, try this:

Remove AOL account from Win 10 Mail

Login to AOL Online . Under your name select "Account Info"

On the left select "account security"

at the bottom hover curser over "manage App and Passwords

Click "Generate Password" A Window opens with "Select App"

"Choose Outlook Desktop" Then click Generate. You will get a code.
Highlight and COPY You will need to paste it later.
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Now open Win 10 Mail. Create account using "Other account POP/ IMAP"

No need to select Advanced. Win 10 enters correct Port #s etc.


Enter your Info using your AOL Address and Password. Let Win 10 create account.

After a few seconds you will get a warning Symbol for the Account. Right Click and select "Fix Account"

HERE IS WHERE YOU ENTER THE CODE YOU COPIED FROM THE STEPS ABOVE IN THE PASSWORD BOX.

Mail should now start working. Tried this on 3 Win 10 OCs and all worked.

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Mail app will not open on 10041.

Hello Adam,

This is the suggested solution below if you haven't already tried it.

In this Windows 10 build 10041, the Mail, Calendar, and People apps may be broken due to a licensing issue with the Store Beta. To get these apps working again, you need to follow these steps:

• Open powershell as administrator
• Run the command Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like “*windowscommunicationsapps*”} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –online
• Re-install Mail, People and Calendar from the Store (green tile)

 

AOL mail not working with Windows 10 mail ?

Hello tynaskos, I’m Virginia an independent advisor here.

I’ve seen that error on accounts which have two-factor/step authentication where the user requires an app specific password which is entered in place of the account password.

Does the AOL account use this security feature?

If not then check the usual ‘suspects’: username & password, whether the account uses SSL & whether the port numbers are set correctly.

AOL Mail IMAP Settings

The IMAP settings for AOL mail are as follows:

AOL Mail IMAP server address: imap.aol.com

AOL Mail IMAP user name: Your full AOL Mail email address. For AOL email, this is your AOL screen name plus "@aol.com," such as "*** Email address is removed for privacy ***" (or @love.com, @games.com

AOL Mail IMAP password: Your AOL Mail password

AOL Mail IMAP port: 993

AOL Mail IMAP TLS/SSL required: yes

Enter these SMTP settings to send outgoing email through to your AOL Mail account from any email program.

Incoming Mail Server: imap.aol.com

SMTP Outgoing Server Address: smtp.aol.com. Set the port to 587

SMTP Username: "*** Email address is removed for privacy ***" (or @love.com, @games.com or @verizon.net)

SMTP password. The password you use to log in to AOL Mail

https://www.lifewire.com/what-are-aol-mail-imap...

Information on two-step authentication:

https://help.aol.com/articles/2-step-verificati...

 

Unable to bring up AOL mail in windows 10 mail app

CANNOT OPEN AOL MAIL