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wing
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11 months ago
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My virginmedia email account

Yesterday I noticed my outgoing Virgin emails kept getting stuck in my Outlook365 outbox. I thought my IP was blocked. So I contacted Virgin by calling 150 got through to the Manchester Help Desk. I told them what happened suddenly and they said the problem was I didn't changed my mailbox password. So they generated a 5-5-5-4  (xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxx) all letters password where I changed to in my Outlook365 - File/ Account Settings/ Server Settings/Password. The issue then went away. Anyone else has this issue that he/she has to change his/her mailbox password to one generated generated by Virgin ? Also, can I now change the Virgin generated password to something else ?

Same thing logging My Virgin Media via the web. I have to change my username to non Virgin Media.email address and changed my password to one Virgin gave me but I can change it. 

I wasn't been told or advised that I have to do the aforementioned. I would like to hear from anyone else who had to do this.

  • wing's avatar
    wing
    On our wavelength

    Now I got the message  "Your Virginmedia 2 account settings are out of date.". Is this relating to my password ? I have 2 passwords - one to log into My Virgin Media on the web and the other under Mail Account Settings in my desktop Outlook 365.

    • David_Bn's avatar
      David_Bn
      Forum Team

      Thanks for reaching out to us wing.

      Are you able to log into the inbox via both our webmail function and the 3rd party client you're using currently?

      Thanks,

      David_Bn