How to eliminate the 'image challenge' in AOL when using Outlook?

[Guest]

I use Outlook to receive and send messages through AOL and I get an
'undeliverable mail message' error when the Image Challenge is activated in
AOL. So, in order to eliminate this message and be able to send messages
again, I have to log on to AOL directly and complete the 'Image Challenge'.
Again, when using Outlook, I need this 'Image Challenge' feature de-activated.

 

[VanguardLH]

I use Outlook to receive and send messages through AOL and I get an
'undeliverable mail message' error when the Image Challenge is
activated in
AOL. So, in order to eliminate this message and be able to send
messages
again, I have to log on to AOL directly and complete the 'Image
Challenge'.
Again, when using Outlook, I need this 'Image Challenge' feature
de-activated.

Nope. Outlook is not designed to work with accounts that periodically
interrupt the login process by sliding in an intervening CAPTCHA page
where you have to manually enter the code string. No e-mail client
can do that. The point of the CAPTCHA page is to prevent automated
authentication and prove a human is using the resource.

If you were using a POP3 or IMAP4 account in Outlook to the e-mail
provider, you don't have CAPTCHA pages (because Outlook is not a web
browser to be displaying web pages). There is something about your
setup that you are not telling us about. CAPTCHA only occurs in the
web interface (HTTP) to an e-mail account, not when using POP3 or
IMAP4. You might be using a local proxy to convert from POP3 to HTTP
to get at a freebie webmail AOL account, similar to how YahooPOPs
works to get at a freebie webmail Yahoo account.