Help with setting up outlook express pls

worriedsik

Hi
i already have windows mail on my vista lap top and was trying to set up my mail on the xp desk top i thought it was all the same and put in pop3 , imap and something else i cant remember now but deff my email address and password for aol
however i click start menue on desk top then email outlook express and i get a mesage saying some errors occured while processing the requested task the host imap could not be foundverify you have entered the server name correctly
i have obviously set up wrong can somebody help please ?

thanks

dogmaryxx

AOL
pop3 incoming: imap.aol.com
smtp outgoing: smtp.aol.com
*Note: Choose "IMAP" as the email server type in Step 5 of setting up Outlook Express

jacktyler

ditto what dogmaryxx said.

full step-by-step instructions from AOL here if you need them.

bugeyed

The AOL support page for your problem is here
http://info.aol.co.uk/help/aol_settings/ms_outlook_express6.html

worriedsik

Thanks dog still getting error mesage

worriedsik

thanks guys checking the links many thanks

worriedsik

no luck ...get as far as downloading folders from imap then get mesage saying your imap server has closed the conection even although i see the box behind this mesage still seems to be downloading folders !!! weird

bugeyed

Okay
Use the advice from microsoft
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883081
Follow all the steps and you should be up and running - Good luck

worriedsik

Thanks bugeyed
Still having probs iam geting no prompt to make it my default, i did however get a prompt whilst on aol mail saying i need ie 8 to recieve my mail so iam downloading that at the moment to see if that helps

thanks again