help :cant receive emails

[Guest]

Hello,
Setting up my new computer with Vista
Set up my "Windows mail" and my current provider is AOL.
I used pop.aol.com for the incoming and smtp.aol.com for the outgoing.
I can send email now using "windows mail" but I cannot receive. When I click
on send/receive it hangs there and then gives error:

"Connection to server failed. Acct POP3 Server.
Error #0x800CCC0E"

My AOL email still works as usual

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

AOL uses IMAP rather than POP3. Set up your
account using these instructions:
http://postmaster.info.aol.com/imap/express.html

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Guest]

OK I set it up as instructed by now get a failure message when downloading
folders that reads:

"Connection to server failed
Server-imap.aol.com
Protocol-imap
Port-587
SSL-0
Code-800ccc0e"

 

[Roland Bierlein]

Buenas noches: *Merryanne* escribió:

OK I set it up as instructed by now get a failure message when downloading
folders that reads:

"Connection to server failed
Server-imap.aol.com
Protocol-imap
Port-587
SSL-0
Code-800ccc0e"

You are supposed to use port 587 for the _outgoing_ mail server, only.
Go to the Advanced tab in the account's properties and change the port
for the outgoing server to 587 and the incoming server to 143. HTH

Saludos
Roland