email redirect

[Bumpyroad]

my main email address for the last brazillion years has been AOL. (AOL haters groan now) and am sick and tired of their recent switch to heavily biased political headlines on their main page. is there a redirect program available that can automatically reroute those from AOL to another email account? I believe that years back I had a email account that I could import my contact list but that is not what I want to do.
thanks,
bumpy

[AsheGuy]

Bumpyroad wrote:
thanks all
bumpy

You're welcome, neighbor. 🙂

[Bumpyroad]

thanks all
bumpy

[Pops]

Follow what AsheGuy showed you if you want to use Google Crome gmail. that's what I did, and now have aol and outlook mail forwarded to my gmail account, now all mail at one place, happy camper.

[AsheGuy]

1492 wrote:
BTW, all you need for default setup of Thunderbird (TB) email client for AOL is your email username/password. TB wizard will auto configure AOL (IMAP) email servers IP addresses, and confirm that everything is working.

Ditto for Gmail.

[1492]

BTW, all you need for default setup of Thunderbird (TB) email client for AOL is your email username/password. TB wizard will auto configure AOL (IMAP) email servers IP addresses, and confirm that everything is working.

[AsheGuy]

Bumpyroad wrote:
went to my gmail account. couldn't see anything to permit this???
bumpy

Click on the "gear" icon (below my smiley face in the graphic below) at the top right of your gmail window. Then click on "Settings" in the pull down menu.




In the settings window select the "Accounts and Import" link near the top of settings as seen in this graphic.




The window below will appear, this is where you enter other email accounts you want gmail to access. The "import mail and contacts" link on this page will lead you through some of the more common email servers.




I have blocked out my email addresses in the screen clips above but you should get the idea.

[Dutch_12078]

As said, most email clients like Thunderbird are capable of receiving email sent to your AOL, Google, Yahoo, etc, address. And if data use is an issue, I've run several tests showing that using a local client uses less data than webmail, and even less if you use IMAP instead of POP3.

[1492]

Bumpyroad wrote:

bighatnohorse wrote:
You can use Thunderbird by Mozilla - it's free and you can make it yours.
Here's how it works with AOL
and
Here is where you get it.

sounds right, but way above my pay grade.
will try gmail solution until I can have GGS set me up.
thanks all
bumpy

Been using Thunderbird (TB) since the beginning. As mentioned, it will do what you want. Read and send AOL emails without going to their website. I use it for GMail, AOL, Outlook/Live.com email accounts.

BTW, TB is easier to setup than GMail as it too has email wizard for AOL.

[Bumpyroad]

AsheGuy wrote:
Many email clients allow you to get email from multiple email servers. As has been mentioned by several, Gmail is one of them and that is what I use. I've never used AOL, but I have set several friends that have up with Gmail and they get their gmail as well as their AOL mail in gmail. Try it, you will like it.

I have eight email addresses that I use or monitor and all come into my Gmail. When you get an email in gmail, if you reply to it gmail puts the original email address as the sender so the sender sees a response email from the same email address as they sent it to.

went to my gmail account. couldn't see anything to permit this???
bumpy

[Bumpyroad]

bighatnohorse wrote:
You can use Thunderbird by Mozilla - it's free and you can make it yours.
Here's how it works with AOL
and
Here is where you get it.

sounds right, but way above my pay grade.
will try gmail solution until I can have GGS set me up.
thanks all
bumpy

[AsheGuy]

Many email clients allow you to get email from multiple email servers. As has been mentioned by several, Gmail is one of them and that is what I use. I've never used AOL, but I have set several friends that have up with Gmail and they get their gmail as well as their AOL mail in gmail. Try it, you will like it.

I have eight email addresses that I use or monitor and all come into my Gmail. When you get an email in gmail, if you reply to it gmail puts the original email address as the sender so the sender sees a response email from the same email address as they sent it to.

[bighatnohorse]

You can use Thunderbird by Mozilla - it's free and you can make it yours.
Here's how it works with AOL
and
Here is where you get it.

[rk911]

Bumpyroad wrote:

rk911 wrote:

gmail will fit your needs. you can import from an AOL account. but nuthin in this world is totally free. you may see some ads on your google mail page.

but can mail sent to my aol account be automatically routed to the gmail one? I do not want to click on or open aol.
bumpy

there is an import setting which specifically mentions AOL on the gmail preferences page. why not give it a try? set up a free gmail account and then try it.

as I mentioned earlier I think the email client is a better solution but forwarding would certainly work for you.

[bob_nestor]

Bumpyroad wrote:

rk911 wrote:

gmail will fit your needs. you can import from an AOL account. but nuthin in this world is totally free. you may see some ads on your google mail page.

but can mail sent to my aol account be automatically routed to the gmail one? I do not want to click on or open aol.
bumpy

If you can access your AOL e-mail using an e-mail client instead of the web interface, which you can probably do, then why bother re-directing the mail? I have 3 or 4 active e-mail accounts on various services and the e-mail clients I use on my Mac, BSD, Linux and Android devices all fetch the e-mail (and SPAM) from all of them. It all shows up in one window as if it had all been sent to a single e-mail address. And on my Mac if I respond to an e-mail, the response by default goes back out thru the same service the original e-mail came in from.