Posted Oct 29th 2008 3:12PM by Webmail Team
Welcome to the new home for the AOL Mail Blog!
We've moved our Blog to one hosted by the powerful Blogsmith platform. Stay tuned for continued updates.
Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments.
When you enter your name and email address, you'll be sent a link to confirm your comment, and a password. To leave another comment, just use that password.
To create a live link, simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will make it a live link for you. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use <p> or <br> tags.
This blog is published and maintained by the Mail team at AOL.
Please share your comments with us. You can bookmark this blog at: http://mailblog.aol.com or use AOL Keyword: Mail Blog
P.S.: Constructive criticisms are encouraged, but any comments with profanity, non-advancing communications, defamatory, objectionable, offensive, venting content will be removed. Please keep the topics product-related. Thanks for keeping this area "family-safe."
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1. This looks great! Looking forward to more new entries...
Posted at 4:12PM on Oct 30th 2008 by Rose Jen
2. test
Posted at 4:28PM on Oct 30th 2008 by justin
3. this new program looks great and works great 2 =P
Posted at 1:43AM on Oct 31st 2008 by adriana9093
4. You didn't even link to Blogsmith, WTF?! And AOL... you couldn't use your own blogware??? Oh, wait, that's right. AOL People Connection got shut down two days after this post, the day you chide Gmail?! Jeebus, WTF is wrong with you AHOLs?
Posted at 9:49PM on Nov 3rd 2008 by Knuckle Putz
5. Hey Knuckle Putz: Hate to spoil your rant and it's probably too much detail for you, but just for the record: Blogsmith is owned by AOL.
Posted at 2:00AM on Nov 4th 2008 by Klaus
6. I like to know why I get the "source routed address" are not allowed..I send e-mail to anyone and everyone except my congressperson.....I never have seen the "source routed address not in standard form" for any other address. What gives, you people don't want us to e-mail our congress people. I know you have a limp excuss. I would like to hear it.
Posted at 10:13PM on Nov 12th 2008 by Gary Vanderberg
7. AOL seems to be increasing saturation of advertising on windows such as mail, etc. I would urge that instead, you seriously consider reducing or developing graphics that do not cause great difficulty in using AOL. It seems as if virtually every window is being loaded with brighter than bright, flashing, swooping, radiating, soaring graphics, which for people who are in way visually challenged, is very difficult to use. The almost 2/3rds of the screen's pixels moving in all different directions at one time are torture to the eyes. As a consumer, I have enjoyed AOL, but I believe unbridled marathon advertising graphics will reduce usage of AOL. Enough is enough.
Posted at 4:25PM on Nov 7th 2008 by KrisC
8. Hi,(The links don't show here) I removed my address for protection. Please help.
I tried contacting AOL about this but couldn't send this message any url I found for aol help!
Somebody has got hold of my email address (I don't publish it) and is sending this junk out in my name. The links weren't working whrn I tried to unsubscribe. What can I do? MaryMacIntyre
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Posted at 12:26PM on Nov 9th 2008 by Mary MacIntyre
9. I don't find a contact number anywhere for AOL. I'd just like to speak to a REAL PERSON for 3 minutes....is that too much to ask? When using AIM, the dialogue box keeps jumping back to the top of the conversation, thus I can't read what the other person has written to me. I'm sure there's a reasonable fix for this, but I just can't figure it out. Help please? And publish an 800 number please??? It shouldn't be this hard to ask a questions!!!
Posted at 2:53PM on Nov 10th 2008 by JoAnna
10. My contact list is empty today after receiving a note from AOL that my email account had been upgraded last night.
Can anyone help?
Posted at 1:11PM on Nov 11th 2008 by tom850i
11. The AIM email upgrade that went in last night deleted all of my contacts.
Is there any way to get them restored?
Posted at 1:11PM on Nov 11th 2008 by tom850i
12. @Mary MacIntyre: THis is quite common by spammers. They always fake the senders email addresses and in some cases (like the one you describe) they simply put the recipient (your) address in there. This is nothing to be worried about and happens around the globe to any mail user unfortunately. This does not mean that they compromised your account or actually sent mail from your account. You should also not try to unsubscribe from Spam, since this usually doesn't work but rather tells the spammer that your mail address really exists and thus becomes more valuable. Just report this kind of mail as spam using the "Report as Spam" feature in AOL Mail
@JoAnna: You find all kind of help at http://help.aol.com. If you have subscribed to AOL dial up you will also be able to find the call center number there. But maybe I can help. What AIM version are you using? Feel free to send me a mail to "marcelbmbecker(at)aol.com"
@tom850i: This was a temporary network issue which we fixed today. None of your data should have been lost. All should be back to normal now. If not, please let us know.
Posted at 9:17PM on Nov 11th 2008 by marcelbmbecker
13. @Gary Vanderberg: Feel free to send me an example of this error message (although I expect it's an error response by mail you get from some server) to me. We don't treat any email address different then others. Filtering "congress people" would also not really be feasible. So be assured that's not what's going on here. There seems to be some other technical issue - most likely on the recipients server side. But just send me the error mail. This will allow me to determine the cause of this.
Posted at 12:26PM on Nov 13th 2008 by marcelbmbecker
14. Nearly everytime that I send or forward email, when I click on the close icon, my browser, Safari, crashes, along with my AOL account. What should I do?
Posted at 5:06PM on Nov 17th 2008 by Joan
15. @Joan: This is unfortunately a known issue which happens to some people (even to me once in a while). We are actively investigating the issue to understand why it keeps doing this. As a workaround: Try using Firefox or make sure to compose mails inline (Settings - Compose)
Posted at 5:30PM on Nov 17th 2008 by Marcel
16. New page leaves no room for mail. Therefore diifficult to read. Also why am I suddenly getting all kinds of spam mail?
In short I don't like it at all!
Posted at 12:36AM on Nov 26th 2008 by Bill
17. I'm wondering if I can read and send e-mail from all my screen names with the same AOL Desktop? The Screen Name tab in the Preferences only shows the one screen name and a -button for deleting that screen name, but not a + button for adding another.
CJ
Posted at 5:38AM on Nov 28th 2008 by CJ
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Posted at 3:31PM on Apr 13th 2009 by ahmetcoskundag
20. Until about 4 days ago, we received audible alerts when new mail arrived. Even though we have the box checked (make sound when new mail arrives), it stopped working about four days ago. We have tried resetting, restarting, etc., but nothing is fixing the problem. Our volume works fine and everything, but nothing we are doing is getting our audible alerts working again. Cannot get a response from aol (assuming we contacted them properly)...don't know. We depend on audible mail alerts to keep from sitting on the computer constantly (we need to hear it from the next room). Hope someone can help! Thanks
Posted at 9:17PM on Apr 23rd 2009 by Liz Holmes