AOL App Password no longer working

Randomly I downloaded the AOL app to my cell phone and only there I was able to generate an App Password.

Hurry Up. It's working as of this morning. Restored AOL to outlook

Here's an interesting take on why: AOL app password GENERATOR no longer work… - Apple Community

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Here's what I think. Apollo Global Management purchased Yahoo and AOL (Verizon) Sept 2021. By May 2022 people started complaining that they couldn't generate AOL app passwords. It is my guess that Apollo wants to make a profit from their email users by pushing users to their web server (in other words, make you go to Yahoo or AOL) to access email. That way, you'll have to look at the ads. And that way, they make money. Otherwise, there is no profit in maintaining the Yahoo/Verizon emails.

Here's a write up from the ATT / Yahoo perspective. https://tinyurl.com/yc5p55a7 Same thing happened to Yahoo users. Now it's us Verizon users who not get emails forwarded to their ISP provider (and thus into Outlook or Thunderbird).

It is just so very painful so have to change your email after 25 years. Mine was clean and simply.

J

I called AOL and they said the feature will be restored at a future date as they are enhancing security. Can we believe them? Who knows?

Is this an AOL email account?

If so have you tried removing the account from the Mail/Accounts preference pane and reinstall it?

It doesn't work for me in the app, either; same error.

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How is this relevant? AOL mail will not recognize 3rd party passwords. That's the whole point to this thread.