I was having a problem with my AOL account set up on my droid's and could not send emails out. I went all over the web and could not find an answer. I went to Verizon store today and I kid you not an hour later we got it to work.
Go to app menu the lower middle circle triangle
go to settings
go to accounts
click on AOL email
go to outgoing server
smtp.aol.com
port-465
username
pass
and check both squares
use secure connection and verify cert..
I hope this helps someone too!!
Good luck!