AOL web mail not being checked; IMAP still works

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Submitted by Persona64 on Mon, 05/16/2016 - 02:31

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As was posted a few days ago, the builtin AOL web mail checker is now failing for some folks including myself.  I also have tried to reinstall and reconfigure to no avail.  I am hopeful that a fix will be forthcoming.

As a workaround I am using the builtin IMAP checker.

Server: imap.aol.com:993  Username: Your-AOL-Handle@aol.com  Alias: AOL IMAP  Link: https://mail.aol.com

Lastly, I have also noted that AOL is very sensitive to anything that looks like a proxy login via their web mail portal.  I have been testing a number of reverse proxy solutions and AOL on at least 2 occasions has seen the connections coming from the proxy as a "suspicious" login attempt.  The second time AOL forced me to change my password.  So I cannot point to Xnotifier as the cause per se, as it was just checking every 10 minutes as it was told to do, but it was inadvertently the reason, sort of.

In any case, I hope someone finds this information helpful.

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digideth

Mon, 05/16/2016 - 14:26

Still having problems here as well......

Here to help so let me know if you need log files

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digideth

Wed, 05/18/2016 - 04:37

I said the hell with it an dl'd the un approved update from mozilla and everything is back to normal.

THANK YOU  Tobwithu!

Hyoumaru

Wed, 05/18/2016 - 06:41

Still isnt working for me.Checked with different versions of Firefox and alerts for AOL still aren't coming in.

RpD

Tue, 05/17/2016 - 17:02

Well... my AOL checking was working fine for a long time... so I would blame AOL... I expect they changed something.
If no one else supplies a test account username/password to xndevel@gmail.com ...I might, eventually ...to speed the process of fixing the script. 

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tobwithu

Tue, 05/17/2016 - 20:31

AOL works again in X-notifier 3.5.20

weg43

Wed, 05/18/2016 - 00:03

Thanks in anticipation,tobwithu. We'll just have to wait till Mozilla pushes the update through now I think as it is presently version 3.5.19, weg43.

Hyoumaru

Wed, 05/18/2016 - 06:47

It actually still isn't working for me. I've checked it in both current and older versions of Firefox but I'm not getting notices for my AOL account.

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Persona64

Thu, 05/19/2016 - 01:12

Thank you.  The latest update appears to have fixed the AOL issue.

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Taz264

Tue, 05/17/2016 - 20:35

Had X-notifier for years on Aol but this months does checks but nothing comes up , if i open the mail it does appear in there ok, think its just the notifcation bit, lets hope its fixed soon

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Taz264

Wed, 05/18/2016 - 03:06

Hi all think i may have found the problem to why X Notify and Aol not notifing us, i tried another notify program and worked once then everytime you check it clears the password so not letting the programe in to check, So i recon its a Aol thing, any fix please

Hyoumaru

Thu, 05/19/2016 - 02:25

Well now I'm just plain confused. I have two AOL email accounts, one made several years back and one made fairly recently, only the latter's working with X-notifier now, can't figure why.

RpD

Thu, 05/19/2016 - 18:03

Have you tried deleting the non-working account definition from X-Notifier and redefining it?

Hyoumaru

Thu, 05/19/2016 - 22:47

Yes I did, it didn't work. I tried following all the advice from the "if your account does not work with X-Notifier" post but nothing remedied the issue. I'm only getting posts for the newer of my two AOL email accounts.

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jeroen

Thu, 05/19/2016 - 23:01

Hi Hyoumaru,
This is the Firefox forum. Are you having this issue on Firefox?

Hyoumaru

Fri, 05/20/2016 - 03:49

Yes I am.

I am and have been using the X-notifier Firefox extension for years.

I don't know why one of my aol accounts is working with the extension but the other is not.

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jeroen

Fri, 05/20/2016 - 10:35

The reason I asked is I have this issue with Gmail on Chrome: only one of many is working. And my suspicion is this has to do with the fact X-notifier for Chrome needed to be adapted to work with Chrome vs 50. Since I am still on Windows XP, Google prevents me from updating Chrome from vs 49 to 50. Google stopped support for Windows XP. But since your issue is with Firefox I am waisting your time here. I don't even have an AOL account.

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tobwithu

Sat, 05/21/2016 - 05:54

AOL problem is fixed in 3.5.21.

Some account has old inbox, which has 'new mail/old mail' folder.

3.5.20 could not handle this.

3.5.21 works with both old inbox and new inbox.

Hyoumaru

Sat, 05/21/2016 - 11:14

This finally solved my issues, thank you for the updates.