AOL facilitates you to connect to your email from your desktop email program or mobile mail application. You don't have to use the aol.com webmail interface to check your emails. Well, it will help you to be more productive, and you can access your mails even if you are offline(your mails will always be available to you).
For this, all you need is the IMAP and SMTP settings. Don't panic if you don't know them. We have written for you:
Aol.com (AOL Mail) IMAP Server imap.aol.com
IMAP port 993
IMAP security SSL
IMAP Username Your full email address
IMAP password Your Aol.com password
Aol.com (AOL Mail) SMTP Server smtp.aol.com
SMTP port 465
SMTP security SSL
SMTP username Your full email address
SMTP password Your Aol.com password
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