AOL is one of the earliest online service providers with email services being its major focus. And to this day, AOL Mail has a great reputation around the globe. It offers services that can be accurately customized to match all your needs- you get to personalize your emails, manage all the received messages, the attire of your mailbox and so much more.

When you create an account or sign in to your account via mail.aol.com, you also get to sync it with other third-party applications to access and use your AOL Mail account. And for that, there are a few changes or adjustments required in your account settings. This read will walk you through the entire process along with a rational explanation.

Understand what SMTP is?

SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, which is a group of set rules that directs how communication will occur among two or more email accounts. And for accounts on mail.aol.com SMTP is a strong protocol that is required to set up an AOL account on another email provider’s service for sending out emails.

Understand what POP and IMAP?

You probably would want some protocol to receive emails in the mail application you are using, therefore, POP (Post Office Protocol) and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) come to the picture. Either one of these protocol settings can be used to set up the receiving part of the email server via your email provider.

How to settle on changes with SMTP, POP, and IMAP?

The below details are exactly, what your Email Settings must look like if, you are choosing the manual setup for Microsoft Outlook with mail aol com account:

SMTP Settings for AOL

• AOL Server name should be set to smtp aol com
• The server port must be set to 465
• Encryption should be TLS/SSL
• SMTP Username must be your AOL email
• SMTP Password should match the AOL password

POP Settings for AOL

• AOL Server name should be set to pop aol com
• The server port should be 995
• Encryption should be set to SSL

IMAP Settings for AOL

• AOL Server name should be set as imap aol com
• The server port must be at 993
• Encryption must be adjusted to SSL

Conclusion

AOL has always thrived with the services it provides and one of the best ideologies was to let users access their AOL mail accounts on third-party applications in place of only mail.aol.com. And similar to all of its services, you just have to make a few tweaks and adjust your account settings to benefit from the feature. Go through the above read and understand what SMTP, POP and IMAP are and you’ll know what changes are to be made.