AOL Mail, additionally known as AOL, is a current improvement in America Online's lengthy (through Internet standards) history. AOL has usually offered e-mail providers, but most effective to its paying customers and simplest through its proprietary, all-in-one software program package. However, within the spring of 2005, AOL launched its first free Webmail provider, referred to as AOL Mail.
AOL Mail differs from AOL's conventional electronic mail application because it would not require a unique software program, and it is to be had without spending a dime to all of us, now not simply AOL subscribers. AOL Mail, like different Webmail packages, runs over the Internet the usage of preferred Web browsers which includes Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, et cetera. AOL Mail users actually go to mail.Aol.Com, input their login information and start sending e-mails.
You can nevertheless download AOL's all-in-one Internet software and use the integrated email program (the modern is referred to as AOL Desktop and it's unfastened). For the functions of this newsletter, we are going to recognition on the Webmail version of AOL Mail.
AOL launched AOL Mail as a part of its pass from a subscriber-based totally provider to a Web portal. By 2005, Yahoo, MSN, and Google had already hooked up themselves as loose Web portals in which visitors ought to seize up on news and get admission to Web-primarily based e-mail, IM and calendar applications [source: eWeek.Com].
For AOL to compete inside the Web portal race, it had to up the ante, so it launched AIM Mail with 2GB of loose storage, a huge wide variety at the time. AOL now gives an unlimited garage area with all AOL Mail accounts.
