Question about forwarding emails

A friend has an elderly relative who has been using AOL. He wants to slowly migrate to Yahoo. We've already set up a Yahoo email address. Now, how do we automatically forward all the emails from his AOL email to his new Yahoo email. We already tried doing something with POP3 and SMTP servers and we got an error (I can't remember the wording). It said something like "Unable to transfer AOL protocol" or something close to that. Or maybe I'm not even close. I really have no idea what the error said, but there was an error. Is it even possible to do this? Knowing how AOL is, it wouldn't surprise me if they block this kind of activity....

H E L P ! ! !

(if he stops paying for AOL, do they de-activate and turn off his email address?)

 

GMail has SMTP forwarding and will also check email for remote sites that allow POP access. Yahoo does POP access, but it's annoying to set up. You have to pay for Forwarding.

First, get your credentials for your AOL account. According to this you need:

• POP server: pop.aol.com.
• POP login: your AOL screenname.
• POP password: your AOL screenname password.
• POP port: 110.

Next, login to Yahoo Mail. If necessary, switch to the Classic Mail interface because the setting isn't yet in the new interface. Now go to Options --> Mail Options. Select Mail Addresses. Click Add. On the right side of the screen, click Configure Manually. Add in the relevant information.

When you're done, click the "All-New Mail" in the top right corner to go back to the new interface.

As far as I know, AOL doesn't disable AOL accounts because you can still use AIM. I've no idea if that's

 

:celebrate Thanks a lot! This should help immensely.... if I have any other questions/problems/issues, you can be sure I'll post 'em here!