In September, we introduced the capability to preview your emails from other providers like Gmail and Yahoo, in addition to your AOL mail. You may, like many of us, have multiple e-mail accounts with different providers. And we wanted to make it easy for you to preview e-mail from other providers like Gmail and Yahoo! directly on AOL.com. Why shouldn't you be able to preview all your accounts in one place?!
We have received a lot of positive feedback about the feature since launch (thank you!) and mail preview is an important feature in the new home page design. You will find it in the "My Stuff" area in the top right corner of the home page.
If you haven't used mail preview before, here's more information to get you started. First, you need to set up account for each mail provider before you can preview your inbox. Just mouse-over the Yahoo! or Gmail preview panel tabs to get started on the set-up process.
Each one is a little bit different so, here's a quick walk-through.
Yahoo
To add a Yahoo account to your mail preview, simply place your mouse over the Y! icon. The panel will expand and you'll find a button prompting you to sign-in.
Click "I Agree" and your AOL.com home page will be reloaded with your new mail displayed in the Yahoo preview panel. You will continue to get your Yahoo! Mail preview on subsequent visits to AOL.com until you log out.
GMail
To add a Gmail account to your mail preview, simply mouse-over the Gmail icon.
The panel will expand and you will see entry fields for username and password to sign-in.
Hotmail
Hotmail does not support mail preview on other Web sites, so we created a panel that provides you with one-click access to the Hotmail application. You can even make it one of the four preview panels in your "My Stuff" area.
To add Hotmail, just click on the "Edit" button in the top right of "My Stuff" and select Hotmail from the edit dropdown in the position that you want it to appear.
That pretty much covers mail preview. We hope that this feature saves you time and makes your life a little easier. Let us know if you have any questions that we didn't cover in the post or if you have suggestions for improvements.
Learn more about the other new features:
My Stuff - your mini-dashboard with mail preview and more
My Networks - your social networks in one place
My Links – customizable navigation
My Local – weather, real-time news and more
RSS Feed Browser - news and updates from other Web sites
Themes - choose your homepage design
Reader CommentsRSS
BARBARA
Nov 6th 2008, 12:38PM
I have looked but cannot find a way to keep a bigger print size on all of my emails that I compose. I do not want to have to change the size with each note I wrote. Any help?
thank you- barb
Mecanico Manuel Jane
Nov 6th 2008, 3:04PM
God bless
Pacoguell
Dec 29th 2008, 9:05AM
I can't find where to add or change any of my screen names in AOL. Can you help?
Glenda Jasper
Jan 23rd 2009, 3:04PM
After 8.5 years I feel Aol has inspired me to never look back and having everything at my fingertips, I would again if having to do over choose Aol.com. Its one Classic Internet on the Web Today.Thanks AOL.COM.. Waiting for Broadband in my area and another 5000 people also waiting, but I know in time Aol will get the job done.
Glenda Jasper
nancy maxfield
Feb 18th 2009, 7:12PM
The print on my AOL home page is to large, the pictures are distorted and it is a mess. I have tried every thing. Is there an easy solution. Have no idea how it got that way in the first place.
amanacool
Apr 3rd 2009, 5:06PM
why would you change it if people is already used to the normal one already? i mean like come on me and my friends liked the old one better the new one is just CONFUSING!!!
peace
love
happiness
- amana( bucky )