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At AOL, we make every effort to keep your personal information totally secure. SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is an industry standard for encrypting private data sent over the Internet. It helps protect your account from hackers and insures the security of private data sent over the Internet, like credit cards and passwords.
To maintain the security of your account while accessing AOL Mail through third-party apps, it's necessary to keep your connection settings updated. An email was sent to our customers in 2017 warning that AOL Mail would no longer be accessible through third-party apps if connection settings weren't updated by November 7, 2017.
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Outlook 2010 – Follow steps under "Other Email Accounts." Outlook 2007 – Follow steps under "Other Email Accounts." Outlook for Mac – Follow steps under "Update your email settings in Outlook for Mac." Windows 10 Mail – Follow steps for "Add an account using advanced setup." Windows Live Mail – Follow steps "To change server settings ...
STARTTLS may be used regardless of whether the email's contents are encrypted using another protocol. The encrypted message is revealed, and can be altered by, intermediate email relays. In other words, the encryption takes place between individual SMTP relays, not between the sender and the recipient. This has both good and bad consequences.
In a traditional client-server email, message data is downloaded to a local hard drive, and it is vulnerable if the computer is lost, stolen, or physically accessed by an unauthorized person. Secure messages are stored on a network or internet server which are typically more physically secure, and they are encrypted when data is inbound or ...
Secure messaging functions similarly to webmail, in that the user must log on to a website—operated by the company or entity in question—to read received messages. With both secure messaging and webmail, all email data is stored on the email provider's servers and thus subject to unauthorized access, or access by government agencies.