Verizon will soon "no longer provide verizon.net email service". They are offering an option to retain one's existing @verizon.net address by creating a new account with AOL, which is now owned by VZ. I assume this means that VZ is consolidating redundancy by shutting down their existing server and migrating everyone to the AOL server.
I have not yet tried setting up an AOL account, but will need to do so very soon if that is what proves to makes sense, and I'm curious to know if this will be simple or complicated. Is it reasonable to assume that one can connect with the AOL server via SMTP? If so, how does one know what settings to use? Same as the current VZ settings? This may or may not be transparent once I log in to AOL, but I'm asking here first in order to avoid falling into a can of worms.
Thanks in advance for any advice.