Setting up OS 10.3.6 Mail for 2 different mail accounts

I've only recently set up my Mail function in OS 10.3.6 and I apologize
if this is a dumb question, but I couldn't make this work using the
application Help.

I've got 2 email accounts; one with my cable ISP and one with AOL. I want
both to be accessible using the OS X Mail function. I got the cable
provider email to come through OK, but I'm not sure that I'm correctly
setting up the AOL mail information so as to permit Mail to access that
account, as well. In the Preferences pane, I'm putting in the AOL mail
address right after the cable one, separated by a comma, but I don't
understand if or whether I should be putting the AOL password somewhere
so as to permit Mail to access that account. The Help instructions say
nothing about another password, leading me to believe that perhaps the
application is intended to access accounts with only one mail provider,
using the same password for each account.

Am I missing something, or just trying to do something that shouldn't
be tried with one account setting?

Thanks for any help,
Paul

 

In the Mail preferences, choose the Accounts part where you type in the
server details. Click the "plus" (+) sign at the bottom. It will add
another entry to the list. Enter the details for each account in
separate entries; Mail will check them all as long as the "Enable this
account" and "Include when automatically checking for mail" options are
checked - see the "Advanced" tab for each account.

Cheers,

Matthew.

 

If you go to Mail's preferences and select the Accounts option, there
now is a window for entering any number of email accounts to add a new
account simply click the plus button in the lower left-hand corner you
will have a blank form to enter your AOL information.

Gerry

 

and then name the new entry something like AOL mail or whatever, and
fill in the boxes on the right side of the window of the accounts pane
as follows:

Account type: IMAP
description: the name you gave the new account you just added
email address: your AOL email address, i.e.
Full name: yours
incoming mail server: imap.aol.com
User name: your AOL user name
Password: your AOL password
outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.comcast.net.yourcomcastusername

Then go to the advanced tab in the same window and enable this new
account for Mail.

I forget where I found this info but it works fine. Like the OP, I have
Comcast cable too but have kept my old AOL account for use when visiting
relatives, so this "fix" is very useful for me. Hope this helps some
others.

Janet

 

site.

They changed things about 6 months ago and now allow standard IMAP
connections and SMTP out using SMTP AUTH. See another post in this
thread.

David