Question Why does Microsoft Outlook not "have permission to get email", and ask me to "update my credentials", for my AOL email?

[scherz0]

I screenshot https://powerusers.codidact.com/posts/281740.

 

[lvt]

Does you AOL works fine with other mail clients except Outlook?

 

[Secret-Squirrel]

A couple more questions for you:

Can you login to AOL's webmail in a web browser, and if you can, are you using an AOL "app password" in Outlook or the same one you use for webmail?

 

[ex_bubblehead]

What did AOL have to say when you contacted them? It's likely that they made a change on their end that broke things.