New AOL Settings for IOS Mail

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New AOL Settings for IOS Mail

I have received a notice from AOL stating "To protect you and your data, AOL will no longer support the current sign-in functionality in your application starting on December 1, 2021."

The default setting for AOL is the IMAP protocol. I have a particular need for POP3. I have attempted to manually use pop.aol.com for the incoming server and smpt.aol.com for the outgoing server. There does not appear to be a way to specify the desired port numbers (995 and 465).

Is there a way to configure the IOS mail connection to AOL to use POP 3 instead of IMAP?

iPad, iOS 10

Posted on Nov 5, 2021 2:42 PM

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Answer 1

ldemps Author

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Nov 9, 2021 5:48 AM in response to ldemps

AOL is implementing OAuth support. I’m not sure the suggestion for POP3 accounts will continue to work when OAuth is implemented.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=3071212&sid=9b73f602abe423fcc67ca70ef54c72e6&start=15

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Answer 2

Nov 9, 2021 5:58 AM in response to ldemps

AOL currently require that you use an App Specific Password for POP3 and IMAP when using any third-party Mail Clients. To my knowledge, continued access using password authentication will be available in addition to OAuth.

More information about AOL’s App Specific Passwords can be found here:

https://help.aol.com/articles/allow-apps-that-use-less-secure-sign-in?guccounter=1

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