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aol mail problem

Dec 9, 2011 6:21AM PST

mail is not coming into safari with aol. this started about four day ago. the mail is now going into the mail that comes with leopard 10.5.8 I do not know how to correct this. Can any body there help?

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Safari being a web browser.
Dec 9, 2011 6:27AM PST

Did you try another browser?

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mail
Dec 9, 2011 6:46AM PST

I tired with fire fox and camino with the same result no mail By the way I noticed it receives
spam in all the browers

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Good point.
Dec 9, 2011 8:50AM PST

So far, SPAM is something we seem to get with email systems. I don't think this is a matter of choosing another browser or mail software. Have you considered forgetting that spammed account and getting a new email account?

Then you could use that but never tell anyone unless you had to.
Bob

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Sounds like someone tried to "help" you there,
Dec 9, 2011 6:48AM PST

because mail would not just start to arrive in the Apple Mail application without someone configuring it.
It requires a username, password and a number of other pieces of information before it will receive mail from anywhere.

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no luck
Dec 9, 2011 7:30AM PST

It is still not working I went into an area to get a new password and It stated that it will go
into the e-mail and there was nothing. I went back to mail and I rechecked the enalble this
account and there it was in there

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aol mail
Dec 9, 2011 8:17PM PST

No matter what I have tried nothing worked. I even reinstalled leopard . I did not give a clean install
Do you think I should do it because their is something on the computer that is causing this