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Frogzone's avatar
Frogzone
Joining in
3 months ago

email service is erratic .

two days ago I could send and receive and send emails over night i could no longer send them and now I can no longer receive them.

I have the following:

1 email address that i use to log into my online vm account. I'll call it account 1

I have 3 email accounts that i use for personal emails. which I'll call  account 2,3 and 4

I use a mac computer and an iphone 11, and use Mail ( the mac mail service for emails

 

I can't use the vm app as its not compatible with my devices...

I don't understand why I this suddenly stopped working, nothing has been changed by me.

 This all started last year when the same situation occurred and I was told I needed to set a a special password via a link on the vm page, it was 3 word password. that took over 3 hours spread over 2 days.

i managed to get 2 addresses working on my phone  ( mail 2 and 3)and two on my mac ( mail 2 and 4) so covered them , but was not very convent . Ive so far spent a very long  afternoon trying to figure it out.

please can some one explain to me in simple terms.. like i'm a 5yrs old would help, because I am fed up of CS raising their voice because they think i'm deaf ! sentences like your 'main email address' I assume means the one i log into my vm account with... apparently not, after an hour and a half i get one working and the CS agent says now just do the same for the others !

imaging to lie in a darkened room for a while.

 

thanks if anyone can help

 

 

6 Replies

  • Hey Frogzone, thank you for reaching out and I am sorry to hear you are having some email issues.

    So just to confirm this is only happening on Apple Mail and on your macs? Everywhere else its working as it should be?

    Have you updated your mac or apple devices at all?

    If so it could be something to do with this device if its working on everything else. Cheers 

    • Frogzone's avatar
      Frogzone
      Joining in

      no its effecting my access via the web page and also on fiends windows laptop..

  • Adduxi's avatar
    Adduxi
    Very Insightful Person

    Try using Webmail in MVM first and confirm if the 4 mailboxes are accessable.

    Check this link www.virginmedia.com/help/broadband/manage-email-account

    As you are not using Webmail for access, VM email now sees your Mac etc as "apps" and therefore the 4 mailboxes will all need the new 4 word passwords setup for each one.  

      • Tom_W1's avatar
        Tom_W1
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        Hi Frogzone thanks for your reply here.

        Please see Adduxi's advice as we do echo this here, can you try this solution to see if this helps?

  • Adduxi's avatar
    Adduxi
    Very Insightful Person

    Have you setup the new 4 3rd party email addresses for the 4 old mailboxes? 
    Have a look at this thread as it’s similar to your multiple mailbox’s.

    https://community.virginmedia.com/discussions/email/account-login---email-login/5600026