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Sending email using your own domain

Introduction Email is evolving new methods to combat spoofing of email addresses.  While there used to be no checks on what email servers can be used by particular domains, that is no longer the case. Consequently when sending using your own domain u...

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ravenstar68 by Very Insightful Person
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Orphan Email accounts

IntroductionThis information applies to all four Virgin Media Email domains.virgin.netvirginmedia.comblueyonder.co.ukntlworld.comCustomers are increasingly coming on the Forum's after having email accounts locked/deleted.  This post looks at one of t...

ravenstar68 by Very Insightful Person
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Outgoing Authentication Issues? - Check Email Logs

IntroductionThere have been a number of threads on the boards lately where people have been seeing the password prompt pop up when trying to send e-mails.While the symptom is the same for many users, there are actually a number of possible causes.Bro...

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ravenstar68 by Very Insightful Person
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Ravenstar's Email FAQ's

The aim of this thread is to collate some of the stickies I have made in the past into one thread. In here you will find the following FAQ's Understanding Email Block ListsSPF, DKIM, and DMARC explainedGeneric/Dynamic host names prohibited - an expla...

ravenstar68 by Very Insightful Person
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All of my sent emails have suddenly disappeared!

I have just noticed that all of my sent emails have suddenly disappeared!I first noticed it whilst accessing VM email through my iphone, so then logged in to my email account online and they have all gone from there too.I have checked the archive fol...

Resolved! Not receiving emails from groups.io

Since sometime yesterday (19 Sept) I have stopped receiving all emails from all the groups on groups.io I subscribe to. Some posts appear in Bounces on my account on groups.io  e.g. mxin10.virginmedia.com: 421 mx1-prd-nl1-vmo.edge.unified.services mx...

AlpenDX by Tuning in
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Retrieving NTL email account

My 91 year old father has recently moved into a care home. His home Virgin Media account was therefore cancelled. He has now lost access to his NTLworld email account. Is there any way to retrieve this, even temporarily? 

Jmat by Joining in
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DEF01 code trying to reset virgin email password

Hi thereVirgin email not accessible now for 6 days. Frustrating. I access the virgin.net mail account via my gmail.com account. Forgot the password. When i try to regenerate the password, the error message flashes up.Have tried clearing the cache and...

MarkB66 by Joining in
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Secondary email

My primary email account (ntlwotld) was hacked some years ago. You could not delete and advised me to create a secondary one for use (virginmedia.com). I did this with no issues.however I now cannot send from it, tells me I have a password error. I c...

Markk2 by Joining in
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Secondary email account

Hello, Can anyone help me get into my secondary account. 3 days ago, suddenly stopped working, no problem with the others. I have been going around in circles trying to get it going, I am 79 not very knowledgeable of computers but use it for ordering...

Verification email never arrives in time.

Been trying to register my account all day but these verification emails take about an hour to come through. They only have a 10 minute shelf life. And after the calls I’ve made today I can confer that this is probably the worst customer service I’ve...

owall by Joining in
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Resolved! Unable to create a separate app password

Hi. My wife has just got an iPhone. We are trying to set up her virginmedia email on it, which she has been using for a long time. I have read the help section on the VM  website about generating a separate app password to do this. However! We share ...

nijmegen92 by On our wavelength
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Close my secondary email account please

Request for techie guys to close my secondary @blueyonder.co.uk email account please. I believe it should have been closed automatically quite some months ago when we left VM but its still active and its just full of scammer and spam emails, so needs...

Winter64 by Joining in
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Email verification link always expired

Hi,I am trying to set up my virgin media account but every email verification link I have been sent has been expired. Could someone assist me with this please?Thanks

BenC111 by Joining in
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