AOL mail won’t open in an old browser; this error occurs when the user is using an outdated version of the browser you can update the browser to resolve this issue in a streamlined way.  This will resolve the AOL mail not working issue.

AOL server is down, please confirm whether the internet connection is working properly or not, In case there is an issue with the internet connection, then the AOL email account will not work properly. If the AOL server is down it could be an issue related with the backend team. For resolving this the user can reach out to the experts from the service team through email or toll free support. 

Invalid email address is a common error, when you are entering an incorrect email address you cannot login to the AOL account. Please ensure your mail id is accurate. This will assist you to resolve the error of invalid email address accurately.

Password is incorrect error, Password is a necessary access of the email. So please confirm your password before you access the email account. Please ensure the special characters and case sensitive error that arises. Once the password is accurate this will eradicate the password in correct error. This will resolve the AOL mail not working error for AOL email address.

AOL mail wont load, if the AOL mail won’t load then you can understand that the mail is not loading because the internet connection is faulty.

AOL does not work well will the gmail this means you need to check whether the mail account is configured properly you can go to the settings and configure the email accounts properly.

These are basic guidelines for the AOL account being configured and AOL mail not working you can reach out for further assistance contact the AOL Professionals.

AOL email is a web based mail service, provided by AOL a division of Verizon communications, the AOL email service is sometimes referred to as AOL Instant Messenger. On March 16, 2017. Verizon had acquired the email in 2015.  Their in house services are discontinued all customers migrated to AOL mail operate this mail account through the third party clients such as outlook and thunder bird or the gmail account. It does not have a host server of its own.

You can download an email copy of the AOL inbox. Please send and receive emails, if you prefer a different interface. There are two different protocols you can choose so that the AOL mail can be configured properly. The servers are POP and IMAP.

Please find below the AOL email settings for your perusal.

• Server Address is: smtp.aol.com
• User name is your AOL mail screen name
• Password is your AOL Mail Password
• Port number is 587 (TLS)
• Port number is 465 (SSL)
• Authentication is an essential part of the AOL mail setup.
• The AOL mail sending limit is 500 emails to about 100 connections a day.

If you access the AOL mail through the aol.com mail app. Then you may not require to make changes to your settings. You may be prompted to select either IMAP or POP3. At any point of time if you change the configuration. Please ensure you save a backup of your AOL mail.

• Open the web browser and Login into your AOL mail account.
• Select options
• Select account information
• In the left pane select the account security.
• Turn on the allow apps that use less secure sign in the toggle switch
• If prompted login into AOL mail.
• In the captcha select I’m not a robot then select continue.
• Open a new browser window in outlook.com and now log in.
•  Select the gear icon of the settings option.
• Select view all outlook settings
• In settings window, select a mail
• Select sync email
• In connected accounts section select other accounts.
• In the connect your account dialog box click on connected accounts.
• In the connect your account section enter your AOL email address and AOL password.
• Choose where you want your AOL to be imported too.
• AOL email can be imported to a new folder or an existing folder.
• When you have finished the process select ok.
• Select save and close the settings dialog box.

The Imap server faces an error of the AOL mail not responding to the server.

AOL does not respond to IMAP server:

• Uninstall and reinstall the AOL mail account.
• At times due to heavy duty traffic of outgoing and incoming emails the AOL account does not respond to the mail server.
• This means the mail account is dysfunctional.
• The best solution for this problem is to uninstall and reinstall the account settings.
• Force and quit the mail app Sometimes the problem is related to the glitch of the mail account application itself.
•  Check your internet connection do you have strong enough cellular wifi signal.
• Remove and re add the troublesome account.
• Manually configure server ports, and authentication options.
• IMAP setting is 993 and 465 for SSL.

If you access the AOL mail from the AOL.com server you don’t need to make changes to the AOL.com settings or your mail settings in other words by if you access the AOL mail account from the email client settings, then you will have to set your settings accordingly.

If the user happens to change the mail configuration the user is supposed to take a mail backup to protect his emails from getting lost in the transition.

If theimap.aol.com not responding firstof all make sure you have entered the server details correctly. Please check the email id and credentials of the email account once again. May be the user is not entering the correct email id and password. This is one of the key reasons why IMAP is not able to respond properly to the AOL mail account. This will be an error for IMAP server. Reboot your phone or the desktop and open the AOL mail account once again. If you are still getting the AOL mail account not responding error you need to delete the AOL account and now re add it again.

People generally struggle with three kinds of issues, one is application issue, second is account issue. Server issue. All three issues need to be taken care of if you want the AOL mail account responds to the IMAP issue.

The best way to deal with the server issue is please update your email application, you need to visit the email application in the application store click on update this will update the existing email application, non updation of the email account can cause the AOL not responding error.

Let’s find out the steps to reset the AOL mail account:

There may be an issue that you may have to reset the AOL email account.

• Restart your system to restore the services and settings of the AOL email.
• This step helps clear the internal memory called RAM of your system.
• Use a different browser using an outdated version of the web browser will allow you to restore the settings of the email.
• Check display name the message won’t go unless the display name is in place.
• If your account is hacked the hackers generally change the display name of your account and make it harder for the user to use the account.
• Please clear your browser cache files, this improves the performance of the web browser.
• Please ensure to disable the firewall by using MacAfee Internet security. This is helpful to determine exactly what is issue?
• If you fail the image captcha or even after answering it you are unable to send the email shows that there is a more serious sign of not being able to sign in means your account is not secure.

Please login into the AOL account from the internet browser. Click the sign in page and then click continue. Click the account info tab. On the menu that displays. Please answer the security question and now click ok. This step gives you an access to the account recovery information. Please add a mobile number to verify your account. This will give you access to the verification code which verifies your account. Please add an account recovery email now please click on save. Please change your security question. Then through the reset link of the recovery mail. This will help you Reset or RecoverAOLPassword setting. 

The AOL mail displays setting is an automatic setting where in the AOL mail automatically configures how a mail has to be displayed in the AOL mail account. You can also manually set the AOL mail account setting. Click on the customized menu, and choose between compact comfortable and relaxed mode. You can also hide the folder names, you can click on the folder name and then you can expand the folder once again. You can also click on the reading pane, now expand the reading pane in full size. In addition to the display settings you can add more themes in the inbox.