Move your email from AOL to FranklyMail
AOL runs on Yahoo’s mail infrastructure, so it behaves identically: an app password from the AOL account security page, then imap.aol.com on port 993.
Which password AOL Mail wants
An app password. AOL states it plainly: any mail app that does not use AOL’s own sign-in page needs one. Two-factor authentication is not a prerequisite for creating it.
Getting it, step by step.
Written against AOL Mail's current screens — the words in quotes are the words on the buttons.
If you would rather skip the menus: https://login.aol.com/myaccount/security opens the right screen directly, in whatever language your account is set to.
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Sign in to your AOL Account Security page at login.aol.com/myaccount/security.
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Click "Generate app password", or "Generate and manage app passwords", then "Get Started".
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Type a name for the app, then click "Generate password".
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Copy the password and click "Done".
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In the import form use imap.aol.com, port 993, and your full @aol.com address as the username.
What to put in the import form.
In the FranklyMail panel, open Mailboxes and find "Bring your old mail across".
imap.aol.com- IMAP server
imap.aol.com- Port
- 993 — TLS from the first byte.
- Username
- Your full address at AOL Mail, not just the part before the @.
- Password
- An app password, from the steps above.
For the technically curious: on 24 August 2026 this server answered AUTH=PLAIN, AUTH=XOAUTH2, AUTH=OAUTHBEARER to a CAPABILITY command on port 993. That is what it accepts on the wire; which password it accepts from you is the separate question the section above answers.
What goes wrong with AOL Mail.
- AOL and Yahoo are the same mail system — the servers resolve into the same cluster and answer identically. Anything documented about Yahoo’s limits, including trouble with folders over roughly 100,000 messages, should be assumed to apply here even though AOL does not publish it.
- The same browser rule applies: AOL asks you to create the app password from a browser you have signed in with over several days, and not a private window.
- AOL is changing hands — its help pages have been rebuilt and their addresses have moved more than once. If a link here has rotted, search AOL’s help for "app password"; the mail servers themselves have not changed.
Then the part that is the same for everyone.
Getting the password is the only step that differs by provider. The order of the move, what does and does not come across, and the one decision that stops you ending up with two copies of every message are on the main migration page.
How the move worksMoving from somewhere else?
$9/yr, and your archive comes with you.
Unlimited mailboxes and aliases on your own domain, 10 GB pooled across the account, 30 days to change your mind.