I'm surprised you are still using it.
I have not had any experience with setting Mail to retrieve mail from AOL using the Mac Mail client but the instructions seem straight forward enough.
What error message, if any, do you get when you try to receive mail?
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After being away from Mac for many years, I finally bought a new Mac Pro for home use. I'm using OS X ver 10.4.8. I'm trying to use Mac Mail to get to my AOL account, and am having a devil of a time using IMAP to send mail. I went to http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/imap/applemail.html and followed the instructions - still unable to send or forward mail.
Any suggestions?

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