AOL glitches with mail application

I have a gmail account, and a aol account. Most of the time, gmail works flawlessly, but aol as a ! next to it, it says something like "coudn't connect to server" My password is right, but it keeps doing this, after i re-try about 10 times, it finally fetches it. Does anyone know what is wrong?

drservaes wrote:
Hi, I just got a Macbook Pro for Christmas, and can't access my regular yahoo email account with the mail program in the dashboard. I did get my hotmail account to work, why won't yahoo work unless you have the paid version? Is it just the POP version, or does it work with IMAP or the other options? I really don't know what those mean, but I would really like to be able to get my yahoo email from the dashboard!
You'll have to take up the issue of why Yahoo does not work with Mail unless it is the paid for version with Yahoo. It is their product and they made a business decision several years ago that they want payment for this type of access.
See Yahoo's site for details. http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/enhancements/mailplus

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