AOL/AIM Mail Product Insider Blog

It’s real easy to read and send emails from the Apple iPhone, as well as to set it up.  All you have to do is enter in your AOL or AIM screen name and password in its email program, and that’s it!  It knows what to do from there (knows which servers to go to).  Now, if you have a My eAddress account, you can use the following server names to configure the Apple iPhone manually.  AOL offers both IMAP and POP3 services for free.  You probably paid a pretty penny for the Apple iPhone—no need to pay any more with AOL. (Did I mention that your AIM and My eAddress accounts now have unlimited storage for free!)

Incoming mail servers:
IMAP: imap.aol.com or imap.aim.com  Port #: 143
POP3: pop.aol.com or pop.aim.com  Port #: 110

Outgoing mail servers:
SMTP: smtp.aol.com or smtp.aim.com  Port #:587

Technically, you can use the same info above to configure most email-enabled cell phones or email programs for use with your AOL/AIM mail account.

Enjoy and let me know if any of you were one of the lucky ones who got an Apple iPhone.

Thanks for choosing AOL,

Tae
“The AOL Mail Blog Guy”

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• #55 Comment from loopelisa 
  10/5/08 2:13 AM | Permalink

  Ok guys Im about to solve your problem with sending emails from your iphone, with the smtp outgoing server error.
  All your settings are probably correct, aol have set up some thing to safeguard your account, you need to go to following address and complete a small form to enable your outgoing emails
  
  http://challenge.aol.com/en/us/spam.html
  
  just fill in your screen name and password then go to next page and complete the picture characters and thats it you are done, we can now send emails
  
  hope this helps
• #54 Comment from osnpwtf 
  9/20/08 8:38 AM | Permalink

  Alright,
  
  I can't send emails, but I can receive them. It's driving me crazy because I have all the right settings.
  
  Incoming is IMAP.aim.com
  outgoing is smtp.aim.com
  ports 143 & 587
  
  The error is basically saying:
  Cannot send mail, outgoing "smtp.aim.com" failed.
  
  I dont get why! I've tried everything. Help?
  
  :(
  
  -Kellie.
• #53 Comment from jbain68 
  8/12/08 11:15 AM | Permalink

  this is driving me nuts- am really fed up with not being able to send aol mail unless wireless as I travel around a lot. Has anyone solved it? went into O2 store today but she was not any help. is it grounds for a refund????
  
  cheers
  
• #52 Comment from pconnett76 
  7/30/08 10:22 AM | Permalink

  The AOL mail account on my iphone will only send an e-mail using outgoing server smtp.aol.com when connected via wi-fi,  if not you can revert to the service provider out going server (e.g. smtp.o2.co.uk).  However, your e-mail will not appear in the sent items folder.
  
  Not great.
• #51 Comment from sbabco 
  5/7/08 8:51 AM | Permalink

  Has anyone resolved their problems with AOL on the iPhone?  I'd like to buy one, but won't unless I know it will be problem free.  Thanks for any advice!