
SMTP Username: your entire AOL email address (including the Password: your AOL mail password 2. You can always jump back here when you’re done.

Note: If you want to know what SMTP, POP, and IMAP are, feel free to skip ahead to the FAQ section. Here are the SMTP and POP/IMAP server settings for AOL Mail: SMTP and POP/IMAP Server Settings for AOL Mail Server

It's good to talk.If you want to send and receive AOL mail from another email program, you’ll first need to set up your AOL server settings. It has been around long enough as even the last update, RFC 5246 is dated August 20 - The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2.Īnyway, I am going to sit back and see if anyone else can offer any suggestions/hacks/workarounds. MS products are now so bloated it is a constant battle to close loopholes and memory leaks.Īll of that said, there is no good reason why Apple should not offer support for the more secure TLS. Within Apple the risks are reduced somewhat but only really because MS is a large soft target with, dare I say it, more followers than Apple. As a Linux user I am very aware that the majority of security issues surround Microsoft products.

One does not act as a substitute for the other.Īctually I cannot find much about security anywhere on the Apple sites (plural). Please see Transport Layer Security - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

SSL and TLS are two very different protocols. The mail account setup has only two options Use SSL or don't use SSL.
