It looks a lot like Apple’s Mail app and it works with AOL just fine. If you want to get your AOL mail on your Mac without resorting to doing it in a browser (yuck), I recommend the Thunderbird mail app. It doesn’t matter how you try, it’s not going to work. UPDATE 2-19-2021: as far as I can tell, there’s no way to make AOL mail work with Apple’s Mac Mail app on macOS 10.9.5 (Mavericks). Your AOL mail experience will remain exactly the same. For AOL webmail usersįirst, if you get your email on a Mac (or a PC) by going to a web browser, typing in “aol.com,” and then reading and composing mail there, you don’t have to do anything. Let’s look at what this means, and what you have to do. Hopefully this will not impact anyone’s email. Shortly after that, they bought Yahoo, and lumped it and AOL into something called “Oath.” Yahoo handles a lot of email, and because Yahoo mail has a better security system than AOL mail does, they are upgrading the security on AOL mail to match. It turns out that in 2015, Verizon bought AOL and two years later Verizon decided not to handle its own email accounts, moving them all to the AOL system. You may have noticed that AOL’s letter says that they’re requiring “updated secure sign-in when accessing your account from unofficial or non-Yahoo apps.” What’s this have to do with Yahoo, you may be wondering. Solving the Updated Security Measures problemĪOL’s sent emails to everyone with an aol.com email address, telling us that in order to continue to get our aol.com email we are probably going to have to sign into our accounts again, using an updated secure sign-in method. The fee for this service is $39 per device, per account, payable by credit card or PayPal, and only if your AOL mail comes in. But, if you’d rather have me do the work for you, use this link to schedule a remote Zoom appointment with me. Note: this article tells you everything you need to know about creating an app-specific password and using it to sign into AOL on an older Mac or iPhone. You have some other problem involving AOL mail on a Mac or an iPhone. UPDATE: if you have an email address from Verizon (ending in ) these instructions can help you too.Ģ. If that sounds like you, click here to jump to the section of this article that solves this “updated security measures” problem. Or maybe, all of a sudden, you can’t get your AOL mail on your Mac or iPhone, and they keep asking for the password, and you keep typing it in, and it never works, even though you are positive you know what the password is.

Letter from AOL telling you your account needs attention

You’ve received an email from AOL about updated security measures.This article helps you solve problems involving AOL mail on iPhones, iPads, and Macs.

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