Set up AOL mail in Outlook

AOL-Mail can be set up in Microsoft Outlook in just a few steps - easily as an IMAP or POP3 account. Read exactly how to proceed here.

10 steps to set up AOL mail in Outlook

With most e-mail providers, Outlook is able to automatically configure the mailbox only by entering the e-mail address and the password. This is not possible with AOL-Mail, you have to do it yourself. In the picture gallery we illustrate the individual steps.

Open Outlook and click on "File". In the "Account Information" menu, click the "Add Account" button.
The dialog for adding a new account opens with three options. Select the "Manually configure server settings or additional server types" option.
The next dialog offers the selection of the service. Here you select the setting "Internet e-mail".
In the next window you can enter all user, server and login information. In the "Account type" field, select "IMAP". The input of the incoming and outgoing servers (SMTP) depends on the ending of your email address, a distinction is made between aol.de, aol.com or aim.com.
For addresses with the ending select "imap.de.aol.com" as the incoming server, for addresses with the ending or "imap.aim.com".
As the outgoing mail server select "smtp.de.aol.com" for addresses and "smtp.aim.com" for or addresses. Alternatively, you can also configure AOL-Mail as the "POP3" account type. In this case, the incoming and outgoing servers are "pop.aol.com" and "pop.aim.com".
After you have made all entries, continue with "Further settings". Here you switch to the tab "Outgoing server" and activate the field "The outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication. Now select the setting" Use the same settings as for incoming mail server ".
On request, the AOL servers can also set up an encrypted connection via SSL to your AOL mail account. You activate this option in the same window via the "Advanced" tab. Enter port 993 in the field of server connection numbers for incoming mail server (IMAP) and port 465 for outgoing mail server (SMTP). "SSL" must be selected in the "Connection type" field. (This step is optional).
In the now active window, save your configuration by clicking on the "Next" button. At the same time, your account settings will be verified and a test message will be sent. If all of your information is correct, the test will be carried out successfully.
Click on the "Finish" button to finish setting up your AOL mail account.