on 11-02-2022 14:22
My wife and I use ntlworld email accounts (linked to a current virginmedia account). Until 2 weeks ago all seemed fine until I noticed that emails I had sent from my laptop at home in the previous week - using outlook - were simply dumped in the outbox without me knowing. Since then we have noticed that it is the same for all devices (iphone, android phone etc - so not an outlook issue or the settings on my laptop) if using the home wifi. I can only send messages from home by using the email via the virgin media site - this is the way I verified my email to get onto the forum I could not do so otherwise.
I have rebooted the router - no effect - and tried to contact technical support which was no help at all - I will not rant about that.
Any ideas?
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on 11-02-2022 15:14
If this issue is only occurring when connected to your home network then it would be helpful to see what, if any, error code is returned by the SMTP server in this situation. Open a Command Shell window and enter the following where username:password is replaced with your email address and password, i.e. richard.branson@virginmedia.com:Y54kpX5g
curl -v smtps://smtp.virginmedia.com -u username:password
Do not post the resulting output here but instead review it for possible reported causes and then post just the redacted part here or the VM error code.
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on 11-02-2022 15:14
If this issue is only occurring when connected to your home network then it would be helpful to see what, if any, error code is returned by the SMTP server in this situation. Open a Command Shell window and enter the following where username:password is replaced with your email address and password, i.e. richard.branson@virginmedia.com:Y54kpX5g
curl -v smtps://smtp.virginmedia.com -u username:password
Do not post the resulting output here but instead review it for possible reported causes and then post just the redacted part here or the VM error code.
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on 12-02-2022 15:49
Hi @ajn0987
Thanks for posting on our community forum!
Have you tried the above suggestion? Please keep us updated.
Regards
on 14-02-2022 13:06
I have used the command you sent and I have received the following:
* Connected to smtp.virginmedia.com (212.54.56.51) port 465 (#0)
* schannel: disabled automatic use of client certificate
< 421 csmtp8.tb.ukmail.iss.as9143.net cmsmtp Virgin Media has blocked your connecting IP .....Too many bad emails have been sent. Visit https://netreport.virginmedia.com/netreport Section: Email Sending Errors to request delisting
* Got unexpected smtp-server response: 421
* Closing connection 0
* schannel: shutting down SSL/TLS connection with smtp.virginmedia.com port 465
curl: (8) Got unexpected smtp-server response: 421
I have submitted a net report as the result suggests. I would have been nice to have been informed by virgin media that this had happened. See what happens?