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96nutty
Tuning in
18 days ago

Password reset on NTL email account

I need to add my ntl email account, which I have had for years, back to Outlook. 

The option to generate an email via the App does not come up when I log in and click into settings. Several other users have had this problem, the screen displayed offers no option to generate the password

Any ideas please? 

  • Hi 96nutty, 

    Thanks for taking the time to contact us via the Community. It's lovely having you on board with us in the Forums. ⭐

    We're sorry to hear you're having issues with accessing your email account. There are some steps you'll need to follow in order to resolve this. 

    Please log in to My Virgin Media here > Click on Account settings > Virgin Media Mail settings > scroll down to the App password section and click the Generate new App password button.

    You should get a pop up message asking you to verify your email address and you'll need to use a 3rd party email address to continue. You'll be sent a one time passcode to enter on the next page to verify it's you. Once verified you'll then be given an app password which will look something similar to: mail-horse-yellow-panda and you should note this down.

    To get things working on an email client or app again, you will need to enter the new mail password in the settings. This will allow your emails to load again. In some cases, you may need to remove the email account from the mail client or app completely and re-set it up as fresh. If this is the case for you, please ensure you use your VM email address as the username and the newly generated app password.

    These changes have been put in place as Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is now required. Just as a side note, when logging in to My VM, you will need to use the third party email address as the username and your original My VM password.

    Please let me know how you get on and apologies for the inconvenience.

    Many thanks, 

  • As mentioned above, when I log on and click on account settings this is the screen that comes up - as you can see there is no option for Virgin Media Mail Settings and clicking on the box that says My Virgin Media Account details does not get me to the option for Virgin Media Mail Settings either.

    Hope you can point me in the right direction

     

    • Daniel_Et's avatar
      Daniel_Et
      Forum Team

      Hi 96nutty, thank you for your response.

      In order to look into this for you further, we'll send you a private message on here. Look out for the envelope in the top right-hand corner.

      Regards,
      Daniel