How to Setup Outlook to Receive AOL Mail
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If you use America Online and want to use Microsoft Outlook, follow these steps to set up Outlook.
- Open Outlook
- Click on Tools
- Click on E-mail Accounts
- Put the dot in Add a new e-mail account
- Click Next
- Put the dot in IMAP
- Click Next
- Enter your name under Your Name
- Enter your AOL email address
- Put your logon information in.
- For the Incoming mail server (IMAP), enter imap.aol.com
- For the Outgoing mail server (SMTP), enter smtp.aol.com
- Click More Settings
- Click the Outgoing Server tab
- Check My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication
- Click the Advanced tab
- Change the Outgoing server (SMTP): to 587
- Click OK
- Click Next
- Click Finish