Mac Mail and aol accounts

I have a friend running an IntelMini Mac who has just switch his adsl from aol to talktalk. (UK). His OS is 10.5.2.
I have spent two hours on it this morning trying to retrieve his aol emails from the AOL server but each time it requests a password which it says is incorrect. Logging into the AOL website and his email shows 141 messages unread but non will download into Mac Mail even though I believe it is set up correctly. Incoming is imap.aol.com and outgoing is smtp.aol.com. The username and password is correct (as used on the AOL web page) but nothing comes in. I've even tried his settings on my mac with the same effect. I'm baffled completely. The fact is his settings worked before the switch to talktalk and I'm now wondering if it could be a setting in his adsl router.

I've been having the same problems recently with AOL using 10.4.11 and Mail 2.1.3. It started about 2 weeks ago suddenly. I have been using Mail with AOL about a year now, without problems. I can retrieve my incoming mail, but have lots of trouble SENDing mail. At times, it rejects the password; at other times, it sits and spins, and then comes up with "can't send" message (takes 5 secs to as long as 2 minutes for this to happen); AND at other times, it goes through lickedy-split! I don't get it. I am using the correct settings (see above post by ali brown) as I always have. I think it is AOL.
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wmail.speakeasy.net
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