Mail & AOL

I am actually posting this for my mom... She switched from PC to Macbook late last year. Ever since then, when she opens Mail, which is setup for her AOL account, several messages keep resending themselves until she Quits Mail (does not have to force quit). It is not the same emails that keep resending, but whatever is most recent; and it does this with more than 1 email, usually forwards (as it keeps adding "fwd" to the subject). She will get the resent messages in both Mail and on aol.com. She contacted the store she purchased it at and they did not know why this was happening. She later had to trade in this MacBook for a Pro (for another issue) and after using Time Machine to transfer data, it is doing the same thing. I use AOL on my MacBook and do not have any trouble with it. I am assuming there is something "stuck," but can't figure it out. We deleted her account in mail & re-entered it, but it kept doing the same thing

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Steve,
Likewise. My mac.com mail comes into the Inbox normally, but my ISD account mail won't. Somehow the old Powerbook has been affected too!
As you say, 'Get Mail' produces no result.
After much wasted time and frustration I dumped the Account settings in Mail Preferences, and re-entered them.
That worked fine for about a week, but again, this weekend they stopped coming in, and working online is like watching grass grow.
I've got a new Intel iMac 20", (I wonder whether there's a clash?)
so I can't try the old Outlook Express to see if that works; no other options.
There's a bug here, Mr Jobs!
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Assorted tidbits that may or may not be of use to those following this thread:
1. As of August 5, I was still able to save whatever emails I wanted to select from any Mail mailbox to the AOL "Saved" mailbox with no errors or disappearance problems of any kind whatsoever.
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Sorry, but I'm not sure what you are asking about.
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Are you referring to contact information in the Address Book application?
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Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
First, just confirming that you realize you can always access your AOL email account by going directly to www.aol.com from the Safari browser (or Firefox, Chrome, etc.) until you get the Apple Mail problem fixed.
If you cannot connect directly through a browser, it's quite possible that AOL is doing maintenance or having a temporary problem. It happens with surprising frequency to most online hosts. I usually check downrightnow.com, but AOL is not one of the services for which they collect trouble reports.
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Hello, Rileys128.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
I understand that you are unable to receive mail on your iPad. Here is an article I would recommend going through when experiencing this issue with your AOL account. I would also recommend checking with your email provider for security procedures such as two-step verification as this could cause this issue.
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Evening ...
I've been set up to send and receive mail on my AOL account via MAIL for months now without any issue. As of last, however I can no longer send mail. The server still delivers mail with no trouble but when I go to send I get ... "Cannot send message using the server ..."
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Hello, and welcome to the Discussions.
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Afternoon, KeyLady19!
Mail can be a tricky one, can't it? Aside from what you've already done there's a great how-to article that you may or may not have already reviewed for how to setup mail on the iPad:
iOS: Setting up an email account
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4810
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Apple maintains a database of the most common email settings. These settings are automatically configured on your device during setup. If the database doesn't automatically configure the settings and you don't know them, please contact your email provider and gather the settings on this document.
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities today.
-Pedro D.

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Could it possibly have something to do with the SSL/secure server settings? What made me think of it is you said it was a public wifi. I don't know, just a thought.

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Hello,
I'm having trouble with connecting my AOL account to Mail. Every time I add my account and put in the password, Mail says,
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I click continue and the box comes up again and I keep clicking continue.
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Hello again,
My ISP is Cabelvision not AOL. Sorry for not mentioning that. Next, I just got my laptop back from Apple after my Logic Board broke and many other things went wrong. Before I sent it in for repairs I had 10.5.8 and my Mail worked fine. When the laptop came back they gave me a new HDD and so I decided to just upgrade to 10.6 right when I got it. I did that yesterday. So now whenever I try to add AOL the same issue occurs. For some reason it will download all my Sent Items but the triangle remains near the Inbox and there is another triangle near the AOL (drop down)?. If I click on Saved or Sent Items, they load but the Inbox will not. If there is anything else you need to know just ask.
Thanks again,
Mike
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Can't read attachment for message 1048
2. The following alerts are from the IMAP server for “AOL”:
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For some time now i cannot seem to send emails from my AOL on the app (Mac Mail). I can receive ok, but not send. It remains in my outbox then a message appears:
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Hello Robertaa,
You may want to have a look at this topic with support offered by the user "David G" that might apply to your situation.
hope that helps some,
littleshoulders

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