Forwarding aol mail to .mac

Does anybody know what incoming mail server settings are required to forward aol email to .mac? I tried using "imap.aol.com" in incoming mail server without any luck.

Do you want to access your AOL email account with the Mail.app or forward your AOL email to your .Mac account?
Via your .Mac account preferences, you can check another email account that is a POP type account which will deposit received messages for the POP type account in your .Mac account's Inbox mailbox but this cannot be done with an IMAP type account.
And I don't believe you can forward messages from an AOL email account to another email account via AOL account prefereces.
If you want to access your AOL email account with the Mail.app, check this link.
http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/imap/

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Hi Padua & JWurzak!
I don't know if this will help, but, in your AOL Preferences > Mail: under Automation, do you have the two options below checked?
Save the mail I read
Save the mail I send
Also, in AOL Preferences > Filing Cabinet: do you have Automatically delete items in my filing cabinet checked, and Never selected, in the contextual menus below?
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Do you want to access your AOL email account with the Mail.app or forward your AOL email to your .Mac account?
Via your .Mac account preferences, you can check another email account that is a POP type account which will deposit received messages for the POP type account in your .Mac account's Inbox mailbox but this cannot be done with an IMAP type account.
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http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/imap/

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Thank you for trying to help.
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iCloud's mail server settings are different from MobileMe's. Strictly speaking Lion 10.7.2 is required for iCloud, and on that Mail is set up automatically.
Snow Leopard cannot access most of iCloud's facilities, however you can set Mail up manually to access your email. The method is described here:
http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/icloudmail.html
The situation with iCloud and Snow Leopard is described in detail here:
http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/icloudSL.html
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Hello,
I have AOL My eAddress e-mail. I would like to know what the AOL servers are to set it up w/.mac
Please help.
Thank you,
James

AOL does support the use of alternative clients like OS X Mail to access mailbox content using IMAP technology. If that is what you want to do, as opposed to forwarding AIM Mail or AOL mail to a .Mac account, then you can create a Mail account using this information:
In the Account Information pane:
Account Type: IMAP
Description: <whatever you want to call it>
Email Address: <[email protected]>
Full Name: <Your Name>
Incoming Mail Server: imap.aol.com
User Name: <your username>*
Password: <your password>
In the Servers Settings supplemental dialog box:
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√ Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
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Password: <your password>
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Password: The account's password.
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I'm not familiar with any old Windows AOL application, but are you saying that you know for certain that these old mails do not currently exist on AOL's IMAP servers now?
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I have checked the settings and password. I have also deleted and re entered the account. I have sent a test message direct from AOL and it has worked. I have also set up a GMAIL account on mac mail and it has worked. I am stumped on what to do next. Any ideas please.

After exhausting all possibilities regarding this problem I finally spoke to someone at Apple care who solved the problem.
So here is the work around which worked for me.
Close Mac Mail
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Good Luck...
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