How to Setup AOL Mail in Windows Mail?

If you are an AOL mail user you should know that accessing AOL mail is not limited to the official AOL mail website and AOL mail mobile app. You can easily access your AOL mail account with any third party mail application, such as windows mail. You can easily link your AOL mail account with windows mail and access your emails through it. Let's see how to set up AOL mail on windows mail?

Sync AOL mail with the windows mail client

Windows mail is the official mail client of windows and comes in-built in windows 8 and windows 10 OS. It offers a single dashboard to access different mail accounts.

If your email account supports IMAP and POP settings, you can easily sync it with windows mail.

For linking AOL mail with windows mail you will need the server settings to send and receive mail. We have mentioned the settings below, but you may not have to enter them because the latest windows mail is equipped to set the settings automatically.

Link AOL mail account with windows Mail

● Launch windows mail. You will find the icon on the desktop or search it in the start menu.

● On the main screen of windows, mail click on the settings button. It will be a gear icon in the lower-left of the screen.

● On the settings window select account, then click on add an account link.

● A pop-up window will open up, here you have to choose the type of account.

● Navigate through the list and click on the other account option.

● Provide your AOL mail email, then your name, and click the next button.

● If the server settings are not set by default you have to configure them manually.

● Select IMAP for email type and enter imap.AOL.com for the incoming server.

● For outgoing mail server settings type smtp.AOL.com

● Also, check the option, "Outgoing Server Requires Authentica", then click on Next.

● Now enter the password of your AOL mail account and click on the finish button.

● If you don't want to go through the login process, every time you check your mail, you can select the "remember me" option.

● Go back to the settings menu of widows mail and select the AOL mail account you have just created.

● Select the properties option, then click on the advance tab.

● In the Outgoing Mail (SMTP) box enter 587 and click on the apply button.

Close the Mail window. You can now switch between your different mail accounts from the windows mail menu. Also, you can send receive and view your AOL mail via windows 10 mail client.