Assuming you have an AOL account, you need to follow AOL's setup
instructions:
http://www.postmaster.aol.com/imap/express.html
Those instructions are for Outlook Express, but they will work fine
on Windows Mail.
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Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]
"odizzle" <odizzle@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:F321DF15-8B29-4825-81BE-D247E93A8EDC@xxxxxx
Quote:
> um yea. just started this thing. first off whats IMAP and SNTP?
> i keep gettin this message:
>
> The host 'aol' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the
> server name correctly.
> Subject 'Hey there', Account: 'microsoft', Server: 'aol', Protocol: SMTP,
> Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11001, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D
>
> what dooes it mean?
>