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lynnh's avatar
lynnh
Joining in
11 months ago

Secondary email not working

My husband has the secondary email on our account and it has stopped working.  Can’t receive or send emails. Tried the generate app password and changing the email address to verify but it just says this email is not verified.  We have clicked the link on the email sent to a different address.  Been trying for over 4 days to try and sort!

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  • coenoby's avatar
    coenoby
    Very Insightful Person

    lynnh wrote:

     it just says this email is not verified. 


    So when you clicked on the link in the verification email which username did you enter in the sign in screen that generated that error message?

    • your VM email address
    • or the non VM email address that the verification email went to?

    To be honest, it's be a long time since I went through that process but I'm pretty sure that you have to enter your new username (so the non VM email address) and your password into that sign in screen. That should then take you to your VM account.

    Certainly once the account has been verified you will always have to enter the non VM email address you have specified as the username when signing into your My Virgin Media Account or your VM webmail account.

    Coenoby

    • lynnh's avatar
      lynnh
      Joining in

      Many thanks for that, i have clicked on the link to verify my non-virgin media email address, it takes me to the page to enter the email address and password which i do and it says email address not verified.  Still have no way of accesses emails just goes round in a circle!!

      Please help!

      • Ashleigh_C's avatar
        Ashleigh_C
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        Hi there lynnh 

        Thank you so much for your post and welcome to the community forums, it's great to have you back.

        I am so sorry that you have faced this issue with your service and thank you again for posting. Can I just check, are you still able to log in with the original username rather than the one you have tried to verify? If you can log in does the secondary email still show on the account? 

        Can I also just check are you trying to change the log in username to the secondary email in question?