AOL Mail IMAP Settings
When you set up your AOL account in a different email provider or app, you’ll enter specific information that gives the other provider access to your AOL mail. Enter these IMAP settings to receive AOL Mail:
Message status: You can’t retrieve unopened mail from AOL users and you can’t check the status of a sent message like you can from the AOL Mail interface.Spam: You can’t access the Report Spam button. To report an email as spam, move it to the spam folder or junk folder of the email client.Deleted mail: Some email applications do not show deleted mail. Some show deleted emails in the original folder but mark the message for deletion.
Why IMAP?
AOL recommends using the IMAP settings in an email client instead of POP3, although both protocols are supported. IMAP syncs the service with your AOL Mail account. Whatever you do with a message on the email service or app shows up in the AOL Mail interface at AOL. POP protocols do not sync email actions. POP protocols download a copy of the email from AOL. If you delete the email in one place, it isn’t deleted in the other.
