I have two AOL accounts, one is perfect, the other stopped refreshing on 1-17. I have spoken to VZ three timesn and visited their store (great techs) at Madison and 43rd in NYC.
No one could help, they recommended K9, yes, it worked, but I did not like it, downloaded the aol app, not great....
I went thru all of the recommendations of trying to close the account, add a new account, rec'd the 503 error as most readers of this will know.
Today I did one last attempt before a cold restart and it worked!!
read down to the Jan 16 8:53am post on the link below.
I did the force close on the email, and it worked for me.
Next I clicked onto the native email icon on my android,
clicked on the menu button on the bottom of the screen on my Stratosphere,
clicked on accounts
clicked add account, there were no email accounts listed after the force close, whereas before i went thru this process my accounts were all visible, but I could not remove the account which would not refresh, and I could not re add it as it would not add an existing account
I added my AOL account as "others" and now both accounts are working! Really!
https://community.verizonwireless.com/message/922764#922764
