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We have a client with an AOL email account and a Gmail account. We are setting this user up in Office 365 with an email address in an Office 365 that will go to a vanity domain. The short-term goal is to have all her email go to her Office 365 inbox. Longer term, the AOL and Gmail accounts will be removed.<br />
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Gmail allows mail forwarding so that is easy. AOL mail however does not allow forwarding (really!), so this is a problem. While I think I could have Office 365 read the mail out of AOL using IMAP, it would check only once an hour, which is not ideal.<br />
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There is also some third-party software on the local system that copies mail from AOL to Gmail so she does not have to look at both, but we would like to get rid of that over time.<br />
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Has anyone here come up with a better way to get mail from AOL to Office 365/Exchange?<br />
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Thanks... Tony
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We have a client with an AOL email account and a Gmail account. We are setting this user up in Office 365 with an email address in an Office 365 that will go to a vanity domain. The short-term goal is to have all her email go to her Office 365 inbox. Longer term, the AOL and Gmail accounts will be removed.

Gmail allows mail forwarding so that is easy. AOL mail however does not allow forwarding (really!), so this is a problem. While I think I could have Office 365 read the mail out of AOL using IMAP, it would check only once an hour, which is not ideal.

There is also some third-party software on the local system that copies mail from AOL to Gmail so she does not have to look at both, but we would like to get rid of that over time.

Has anyone here come up with a better way to get mail from AOL to Office 365/Exchange?

Thanks... Tony

Forwarding AOL Email to Exchange Office 365

Office 365 is a group of software plus services subscriptions that provides productivity software and related services to its subscribers. Office 365 allows the use of Microsoft Office apps on Windows and OS X, provides storage space on Microsoft's cloud storage service OneDrive, and grants 60 Skype minutes per month. Office 365 includes e-mail and social networking services through hosted versions of Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server, SharePoint and Office Online, integration with Yammer, as well as access to the Office software. All of Office 365's components can be managed and configured through an online portal; users can be added manually, imported from a CSV file, or Office 365 can be set up for single sign-on with a local Active Directory using Active Directory Federation Services.

Microsoft 365

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.