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allarg01
Joining in
12 months ago

Password for Blueyonder email

I have been advised that my blueyonder email account details have been found online and it is suggested that I change the password.

I am unable to do so. I have set up a VM app account using a Gmail account. When I use this, it does not show the two blueyonder addresses that I have had for years. It only shows my virginmedia email accounts.

When I attempted to explain this to a support person, he said that he had changed my BY password and told me what he set it to. However, I am still able to download my emails into Outlook using my old password so the BY account is still working with my own password. This was the original email address that was used when I opened an account. Previously, I understood that it had to remain as all other email addresses link to that.

I have tried to create a VM app account using the BY email but the system states that I already have an account, yet using that does not show the BY address at all.

Any advise would be gratefully received.

 

  • Each email address now has its own My VM account

    Secondary accounts changes now have to be made via the My Virgin Media account for the secondary email.  Sign out of your other My VM account and then sign in as follows.

    Sign into the account here: https://www.virginmedia.com/my-virgin-media using the email address concerned and the current password. Once logged in click on Account Settings then Account details. You should now see the options to change password etc.

    If that isn't available try https://www.virginmedia.com/my-virgin-media/forgotten-details/password

    If no security answers have been set for the email address concerned then you will need to call in for support and select technical issues> email

    As part of this process you are likely to be asked to change the username for the blueyonder email address to a third party email address.  This does not change the blueyonder address just the way you sign into it.

  • Graham_A's avatar
    Graham_A
    Very Insightful Person

    Each email address now has its own My VM account

    Secondary accounts changes now have to be made via the My Virgin Media account for the secondary email.  Sign out of your other My VM account and then sign in as follows.

    Sign into the account here: https://www.virginmedia.com/my-virgin-media using the email address concerned and the current password. Once logged in click on Account Settings then Account details. You should now see the options to change password etc.

    If that isn't available try https://www.virginmedia.com/my-virgin-media/forgotten-details/password

    If no security answers have been set for the email address concerned then you will need to call in for support and select technical issues> email

    As part of this process you are likely to be asked to change the username for the blueyonder email address to a third party email address.  This does not change the blueyonder address just the way you sign into it.

    • allarg01's avatar
      allarg01
      Joining in

      Thank you Graham, I was confused but now see the light 🙂

  • I have the self same problem. I changed my login password to get into the account and then in account details <change password> it says I need to set a third party email. I did that yesterday and got an email to that address confirming it but it is still asking me to set it up again before I can get to the next step. Does it take a couple of days to change and I don't quite understand what and when i use this googlemail address for. And I thought I was pretty tech savvy till this!
    Adendum to above ...... or when it says <sign in details> in account details do I change that to the gmail address and then edit the password as it still shows as the BY one - which I took to mean the address of the email I wanted to change pw for.

    • Robert_P's avatar
      Robert_P
      Forum Team

      Hello dcweather

       

      The third party email address is for account recovery, the login details should also have been updated to the third party. Has this updated since your post and allowed access?

       

      Rob