I cannot access email sponding. I have checked my settings and don't see that server. It has smtp.aol.com. What to do?

"imap.aol.com" is the incoming mail server.

"smtp.aol.com" is the outgoing mail server.

I just pinged imap.aol.com and it was not responding.

Try copying the settings from your husband's iPhone (except your name and password of course).

I have 2 AOL accounts on my iPad and both are working fine as I just tested them.

Have you checked to make sure that your password is correct?

There can't be a problem with AOL on your end. Your settings to connect to AOL might be incorrect.

When someone pings a web site and it doesn't respond, that means the web site is down.

If your husband can get his AOL email and you can't, the problem is with the settings on your iPad.

Just for the heck of it - quit the mail app and restart the iPad and then see if you can use the account again.

Go to the home screen first by tapping the home button. Quit/close open apps by double tapping the home button and the task bar will appear with all of you recent/open apps displayed at the bottom. Tap and hold down on any app icon until it begins to wiggle. Tap the minus ➖ sign in the upper left corner to close the apps. Restart the iPad. Restart the iPad by holding down on the sleep button until the red slider appears and then slide to shut off. To power up hold the sleep button until the Apple logo appears and let go of the button.

I'm having the same issue with aol email. Can't get email on my iPhone or iPad. same error. But I do get email from another aol account that I have. Stopped working today. It's not a set up issue since I've been using it this way for years and nothing has been updated.

This is not an iOS or Mac thing - the IMAP AOL servers are throwing a fit. I'm having trouble accessing my AOL (SPAM) account on an Android, iPhone, Windows and Mac computer via IMAP. It started this morning - nothing has been changed on any of these accounts in over 2 years.

That's why pinging the AOL mail servers is timing out like I said in an earlier post.

Thanks for the confirmation.

And yet I just checked both of my AOL accounts on my iPads and on my Mac and I am having NO issues at all.

Are you using IMAP to connect? Packets are being dropped randomly, its not that the servers have been down all day, its that they're 'browning out'. It's been screwy, on and off, all day. I'm looking into this further.