@NinjaMeerkat - While I'd certainly recommend IMAP over POP3 for all users, if users want to use POP3 they can do so IMHO
@rossfletcher
To back up what Graham is saying, in the past, when VM used Google's Apps for ISP's Google recommended putting recent: before the username when more than one client was accessing the same POP3 account. This was a Google specific thing. When VM started using their own servers, in order to make things easier for users, they used to strip the recent: from the username automatically.
Based on what we've seen on the Forum it looks as though this is no longer happening.
I've manually logged in to pop3.blueyonder.co.uk
+OK Virgin Media server ready.
user <my email address>
+OK
pass <my password>
+OK Logged in.
list
+OK 249 messages:
1 69623
2 97756
..
So we know the server is authenticating perfectly well here.
Check your settings
make sure you are using pop3.virginmedia.com on port 995 with SSL/TLS
Make sure that your username is YOUR FULL email address, e.g. joebloggs@blueyonder.co.uk and that you DON'T prefix it with recent:
Your outgoing server should be smtp.virginmedia.com on port 465 with SSL/TLS
Authentication should be enabled and the username and password are the same as for the incoming server.
Tim
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