Once you’ve confirmed that everything is there (take a few days or weeks if you need to) delete your old Verizon account from your devices. Once it does verify that your inbox and other folders show the emails that you want to keep. Give your email account a few minutes to synchronize.
Disable the Verizon account from your email clients such as Apple Mail on your Mac or iPhone.In Mail on your Mac click your Verizon inbox, click the “Mailbox” menu, and choose “Export Mailbox”.
If you want to keep your existing emails you may need to export your inbox and then import them when you are done.As always, be sure your computer is fully backed up if you have old emails that you care about keeping. You can’t simply switch the account to IMAP you have to delete the POP account and then add it back as IMAP (or as AOL if that’s an option). If you use an email app on your computer instead of webmail there are some more complex additional steps if you want to take advantage of IMAP sync.
Price: Free If you want to take advantage of IMAP sync in your mail app
If you want something that operates like the website you can download the AOL app from the App Store.
After 180 days of no activity Verizon will delete your account data from their servers. Verizon will close your email address if you don’t choose to move to AOL by the deadline. Your address will continue to be If you have an AOL account already they will not move your information into this existing account. It’s still an AmEx, but the money is handled by Wells Fargo or CitiBank. It’s kind of like how you can now get an American Express card that is managed by another bank.
You will still have your address if you opt-in to this change, but instead of Verizon handling your email, you’ll be using AOL’s system. Verizon is shutting down their email service but they are offering to move you over to AOL so you can keep your existing email address. So you can keep your email address, it will just be managed by someone else. What they are doing is shutting down their email servers, and they are allowing you to move your account and address over to AOL’s servers. I’ve been very disappointed with Verizon’s handling of the situation because they aren’t making it very clear to their users, and are causing a lot of unneeded worry. Despite what you may have heard, Verizon is not forcing you out of your email address.