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[Stefnmike]

Hello!!

ok, my ISP is Charter, but I do not use charter for my email. I use AOL. My
parents have AOL and I have a screen name that I use b/c I have had that
email for years. I am trying to set up my Windows Mail (I think this is
basically outlook???) I typed in my pop3/smtp and so on. It then prompted me
to log in so windows could verify and proceed on. Well, I did my AOL
screenname and password and it is not working. I am not sure what I am doing
wrong. I just can't seem to get my AOL mail into outlook so I can use just
outlook. Can anyone help me or point me in the right direction??

thanks so much!
stephanie

 

[DL]

Windows Mail and Outlook are two completely different programs
Mail is a part of Vista and Outlook is component of the MS Office family

 

[Stefnmike]

Can I download outlook for free?

Windows Mail and Outlook are two completely different programs
Mail is a part of Vista and Outlook is component of the MS Office family

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

no

Can I download outlook for free?

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

See http://email.about.com/od/windowsmailtips/qt/et_access_aol.htm

Windows Mail and Outlook are not the same application.

 

[Peter Foldes]

You can download the Office 2007 Trial and try it (Outlook). If you like it then
purchase it afterwards

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Hello!!

ok, my ISP is Charter, but I do not use charter for my email. I use AOL.
My
parents have AOL and I have a screen name that I use b/c I have had that
email for years. I am trying to set up my Windows Mail (I think this is
basically outlook???) I typed in my pop3/smtp and so on. It then prompted
me
to log in so windows could verify and proceed on. Well, I did my AOL
screenname and password and it is not working. I am not sure what I am
doing
wrong. I just can't seem to get my AOL mail into outlook so I can use just
outlook. Can anyone help me or point me in the right direction??

thanks so much!
stephanie

Have you tried the AOL help directions?

http://help.aol.com/help/microsites...TO_1_1&dialogID=54986116&stateId=1 0 54988488


Windows mail is definitely *not* Outlook. Outlook is part of MS Office,
and usually costs several hundred dollars.

HTH
-pk

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Windows Mail is similar to Outlook Express, not Outlook.
Set up your AOL account in Windows Mail using these instructions:
http://postmaster.aol.com/imap/express.html

Those instructions were written for Outlook Express, but
Windows Mail uses the same settings as Outlook Express.

 

[Sam Hobbs]

In the past Internet Explorer included Front Page Express and Outlook
Express. The Express part of the name implies free with less capability.
Visual Studio (for programming) for example still has Express editions that
are free with less capability. So the name Outlook Express implies a free
version of Outlook that has less capability. I don't know how true that is
but Outlook Express sure has less capability and Windows Mail is a lot like
Outlook Express.

Personally I consider Outlook to have less capability; there are many things
Outlook does not do that Outlook Express does, or at least I could not
figure out how to do some things when I tried Outlook. I did not make a big
effort to use Outlook and probably I could get Outlook to do everything I
wanted but it sure seemed less useful to me.