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Msc1984
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5 months ago

NTLworld acc sending not receiving

I have had VM broadband for years and had a ntlworld email address alongside my VM email account. I used to use it as a mailbox on my phone but could also access it through the webmail login until 2mths ago. In the VM app the VM email is primary and if I set up the ntlworld one as unified it fails to recognise the password. I have added it to my gmail and I can send messages from my ntlworld email and can see a few junk messages but none of my inbox or sent items are there. Is there anyway these can be accessed. Thank you 

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    coenoby
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    Msc1984 wrote:

     if I set up the ntlworld one as unified it fails to recognise the password.


    I don't know if you are aware but VM now insists that you use a separate "Mail app password" when accessing you VM email accounts via an email app or client. Accessing a email account via the Unified Mail option means that VM webmail is acting as an email app.

    Here is a link explaining this.  https://www.virginmedia.com/help/broadband/man age-email-account - go to the section "How to set up my Virgin Media email on a device" and more specifically,  the next section "Setting your app password to use an Email app".

    Bear in mind that VM will now require you to specify a non VM email account (such as your Gmail account) to become your Username for signing into the VM webmail account of that VM address. Your VM email address and account will remain unchanged.

    Once you have generated a Mail app password for this VM email account you will need to enter that into the settings in the Unified mail section of the relevant VM webmail account  and also update the password for this email account in Gmail's settings.

    Coenoby

     

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      Msc1984
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      Thank you……yes the @vm.com email works fine this way but not the @ntlworld.com one. The strange thing is I can send a message from the @ntl email to myself and I receive that fine on the loop back. I can send emails out but I cannot receive any in from that account and nothing bounces back to the sender to alert them it’s failed either. Shame the mailbox couldn’t have just been port forwarded to the @vm.com. 

      • Graham_A's avatar
        Graham_A
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        Msc1984 You don't say whether you have followed coenoby detailed steps to regain access to the account via the unified webmail view.

        What happens if you sign out of the primary VM webmail account and then log back in with the Ntlworld email address and password at https://mail.virginmedia.com/