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AOL mail through OSX mail help!!!

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Klopsi69

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Apr 20, 2004
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I've been trying to set up my aol email account to work through my OSX mail application, receiving messages works great, but it doesn't seem to be able to send them at all!!
Can anyone help? I've tried the settings from the aol help page, and the help page doesn't help!
If it makes any difference, i'm in the uk.

Thanks,
Phil
 
Klopsi69 said:
I've been trying to set up my aol email account to work through my OSX mail application, receiving messages works great, but it doesn't seem to be able to send them at all!!
Can anyone help? I've tried the settings from the aol help page, and the help page doesn't help!
If it makes any difference, i'm in the uk.

Thanks,
Phil
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Um-m-m, no. You're wrong about that. If you follow the instructions, AOL Mail works fine Apple's Mail client..
 
helpful as that reply wasn't , I should have made it more clear that i have tried the settings from the aol help page, and scoured google, but cannot figure out why i can send but not receive. I have tried altering the server port etc. but nothing seems to help.

Has anyone found some quirky setting that needs to be activated or anything? :(

I am on a university LAN if it makes any difference.
 
i guess the server messed up for u too! lol

glad it's not just me. maybe someone can help us out...?

:eek:
 
if you wil post your settings, maybe we can help. I have aol setup and it works great, but I followed the instructions from macworld. I can't seem to find the link right now, but I will look and if I find I'll post it later. I'll check when I get home and get on my computer what settings I have and I'll compare them to what you post.
 
settings

jermsmingy said:
if you wil post your settings, maybe we can help. I have aol setup and it works great, but I followed the instructions from macworld. I can't seem to find the link right now, but I will look and if I find I'll post it later. I'll check when I get home and get on my computer what settings I have and I'll compare them to what you post.
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im using stmp.aol.com for my outgoing, port 587, am i doing something wrong?
 
I'm not home right now so, I can't be certain, but I know that you must use authentication for outgoing mail, you need to go to the smtp options and select use authentication and type in your user name and password. The port 587 is right though.
 
actually, if you are using STMP.AOL.COM, you ARE doing something wrong (should be smtp.aol.com, but that was probably just a typo)

make sure it's also password protected, that screwed me up when I was having this problem, but yours may be something different, and in that case, I'm sorry but I cannot help.
 
Alternatively you can use your outgoing smtp server through your university (or for others, whatever high speed connection ISP you have). You can still send from your AOL address but you don't even have to be signed into aol to send.
 
hmmm...

I use those settings, and i still can't send. Just to confirm, I am not signed in to aol, but am simply accessing these servers over my uni's lan>internet access.

It sounds as though some are using the mail.app when also signed in to aol?
 
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