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AOL Email Not Working
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catalpa
2018-02-15 22:58:34 UTC
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AOL Verizon email not working today.

First time since the switch to AOL it hasn't worked.
catalpa
2018-02-18 00:48:26 UTC
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Post by catalpa
AOL Verizon email not working today.
First time since the switch to AOL it hasn't worked.
Working on Saturday 02/17/2018.
catalpa
2018-02-23 03:47:25 UTC
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Post by catalpa
AOL Verizon email not working today.
First time since the switch to AOL it hasn't worked.
Not working again Thursday 2/22/2018.
Big Al
2018-02-23 10:08:26 UTC
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AOL Verizon email not working today.
First time since the switch to AOL it hasn't worked.
Not working again Thursday 2/22/2018.
I'm so glad I got away from Verizon/AOL!! I moved about 18 months ago
and was not sure if I was going to keep Verizon. So I moved all my
website info. Whew!
Mark F
2018-02-23 18:34:43 UTC
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AOL Verizon email not working today.
I noticed problems with email for about 2 weeks,
starting ABOUT 2018 February 10.

I have about 8 verizon.net email accounts that are now served
by AOL servers. The symptom was that one or two seemingly arbitrary
of the email addresses not able to be downloaded. Usually exiting the
program and running retrievals for all accounts again (only 1 would
have mail to download) would have no problem, but sometimes the
same or a different seemingly arbitrary account would not be
able to be signed into.

I used Forte Agent and Microsoft Outlook 2016 on both Windows 7 and
Windows 10. Sometimes I would be retrieving email on more than one
machine or more than one program on one or more machines and some
would have no problem and two or more machine/program combinations
would fail on different accounts.

Not problems today, 2018 February 23
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First time since the switch to AOL it hasn't worked.
Not working again Thursday 2/22/2018.
JBI
2018-02-24 16:55:14 UTC
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Post by Mark F
Post by catalpa
Post by catalpa
AOL Verizon email not working today.
I noticed problems with email for about 2 weeks,
starting ABOUT 2018 February 10.
I have about 8 verizon.net email accounts that are now served
by AOL servers. The symptom was that one or two seemingly arbitrary
of the email addresses not able to be downloaded. Usually exiting the
program and running retrievals for all accounts again (only 1 would
have mail to download) would have no problem, but sometimes the
same or a different seemingly arbitrary account would not be
able to be signed into.
I used Forte Agent and Microsoft Outlook 2016 on both Windows 7 and
Windows 10. Sometimes I would be retrieving email on more than one
machine or more than one program on one or more machines and some
would have no problem and two or more machine/program combinations
would fail on different accounts.
Not problems today, 2018 February 23
Post by catalpa
Post by catalpa
First time since the switch to AOL it hasn't worked.
Not working again Thursday 2/22/2018.
I've been noticing this lately too. In fact, when I was negotiating my
renewal with Verizon on the phone, they wanted me to confirm their offer
via email and it was hanging as you describe above at the time. No
solution was offered other than to wait up to 24 hours for their offer
to appear. It finally showed once I was off the phone, and in about 2
hours.

I guess I could best describe it as occasional email lag when accessing
possible email in the accounts. Not that noticeable until recently.
Mark F
2018-03-07 18:09:29 UTC
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Was working OK for me from about 2018 February 23, but the problem
started again on about 2018 March 5 and still happening
2018 March 7 12:55 EST
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Post by catalpa
Post by catalpa
AOL Verizon email not working today.
I noticed problems with email for about 2 weeks,
starting ABOUT 2018 February 10.
I have about 8 verizon.net email accounts that are now served
by AOL servers. The symptom was that one or two seemingly arbitrary
of the email addresses not able to be downloaded. Usually exiting the
program and running retrievals for all accounts again (only 1 would
have mail to download) would have no problem, but sometimes the
same or a different seemingly arbitrary account would not be
able to be signed into.
I used Forte Agent and Microsoft Outlook 2016 on both Windows 7 and
Windows 10. Sometimes I would be retrieving email on more than one
machine or more than one program on one or more machines and some
would have no problem and two or more machine/program combinations
would fail on different accounts.
Not problems today, 2018 February 23
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Post by catalpa
First time since the switch to AOL it hasn't worked.
Not working again Thursday 2/22/2018.
Bill
2018-03-02 17:07:19 UTC
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AOL Verizon email not working today.
First time since the switch to AOL it hasn't worked.
Not working again Thursday 2/22/2018.
Not working again today. It went down a little after 9 and came back at
around 11 but seems to be down again now. The website either gets a 504
or just can't load email if I already have the menu displayed.
Mailwasher and Thunderbird seem to be able to talk to the POP mail
server but nothing new is showing up.
Bit Twister
2018-03-02 17:13:57 UTC
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Post by catalpa
Post by catalpa
AOL Verizon email not working today.
First time since the switch to AOL it hasn't worked.
Not working again Thursday 2/22/2018.
Not working again today. It went down a little after 9 and came back at
around 11 but seems to be down again now. The website either gets a 504
or just can't load email if I already have the menu displayed.
Mailwasher and Thunderbird seem to be able to talk to the POP mail
server but nothing new is showing up.
I have a cron job to check all my email accounts for mail which runs
every hour.

POP server keeps bouncing up and down. Lately it seems to happen
every day or every other day and has failed two or more times in a day.
Bill
2018-03-02 18:03:27 UTC
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Post by catalpa
Post by catalpa
AOL Verizon email not working today.
First time since the switch to AOL it hasn't worked.
Not working again Thursday 2/22/2018.
Not working again today. It went down a little after 9 and came back at
around 11 but seems to be down again now. The website either gets a 504
or just can't load email if I already have the menu displayed.
Mailwasher and Thunderbird seem to be able to talk to the POP mail
server but nothing new is showing up.
I have a cron job to check all my email accounts for mail which runs
every hour.
POP server keeps bouncing up and down. Lately it seems to happen
every day or every other day and has failed two or more times in a day.
I was actually just able to download all of my mail (around 5000 pieces)
that I had on the server into Thunderbird, so the POP server seems OK at
the moment. Even got some email from the past half hour that I had not
previously seen in Mailwasher. Of course the website and app are still
broken and I am not seeing any new mail in MW.

I really feel bad for the folks who rely on this crappy service for
their businesses. Several are complaining to @AOLMail on Twitter.
Bill
2018-03-02 19:18:53 UTC
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Post by catalpa
Post by catalpa
AOL Verizon email not working today.
First time since the switch to AOL it hasn't worked.
Not working again Thursday 2/22/2018.
Not working again today. It went down a little after 9 and came back at
around 11 but seems to be down again now. The website either gets a 504
or just can't load email if I already have the menu displayed.
Mailwasher and Thunderbird seem to be able to talk to the POP mail
server but nothing new is showing up.
I have a cron job to check all my email accounts for mail which runs
every hour.
POP server keeps bouncing up and down. Lately it seems to happen
every day or every other day and has failed two or more times in a day.
FYI, it seems to be fixed.
JBI
2018-02-26 15:23:05 UTC
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Post by catalpa
AOL Verizon email not working today.
First time since the switch to AOL it hasn't worked.
One other thing I've noticed since using AOL and Thunderbird is that
sometimes after I just check and either keep or delete my email, I seem
to download duplicates and must do the same process again a few minutes
later. Never seen that happen before AOL, but it happens at least one
time a week now. I don't know if this is AOL or Thunderbird.
Bill Ghrist
2018-02-27 03:25:27 UTC
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Post by JBI
Post by catalpa
AOL Verizon email not working today.
First time since the switch to AOL it hasn't worked.
One other thing I've noticed since using AOL and Thunderbird is that
sometimes after I just check and either keep or delete my email, I seem
to download duplicates and must do the same process again a few minutes
later.  Never seen that happen before AOL, but it happens at least one
time a week now.  I don't know if this is AOL or Thunderbird.
This just happened to me for the first time today, also with AOL and
Thunderbird. I have Thunderbird set to leave messages on the server (so
I can access them from my phone and tablet). I just got a couple of
weeks worth of messages downloaded to Thunderbird a second time.
Bill Ghrist
2018-02-27 03:34:58 UTC
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Post by JBI
Post by catalpa
AOL Verizon email not working today.
First time since the switch to AOL it hasn't worked.
One other thing I've noticed since using AOL and Thunderbird is that
sometimes after I just check and either keep or delete my email, I
seem to download duplicates and must do the same process again a few
minutes later.  Never seen that happen before AOL, but it happens at
least one time a week now.  I don't know if this is AOL or Thunderbird.
This just happened to me for the first time today, also with AOL and
Thunderbird.  I have Thunderbird set to leave messages on the server (so
I can access them from my phone and tablet).  I just got a couple of
weeks worth of messages downloaded to Thunderbird a second time.
I also just discovered a bunch of messages in my AOL spam folder (in AOL
webmail) but I have do not have the spam filter enabled.

For a long time I was getting virtually no spam at all from AOL, but a
few days ago I started getting a large number of spam messages. I looks
as though AOL has been screwing around with their message processing
just recently.
Bill Ghrist
2018-10-24 17:00:44 UTC
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Post by catalpa
AOL Verizon email not working today.
First time since the switch to AOL it hasn't worked.
It'd down again right now. The POP server times out from Thunderbird
and when I try to log on to webmail I get "504 Gateway Time-out."
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