cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Setting up NTLWorld email on my iPhone

jimk11
Joining in

Hi there

I'm trying to add my NTL World email to my iPhone.  It stopped working a month or two ago, so I deleted the account and tried to re-add, but getting this error message: No password provided for NTL World. Please go to mail account setting and enter password.  The password on my iPhone looks to be correct!

It's still working on my Fire Tablet though.  Therefore, I would like reset my password to see if that will help (and obviously don't want to mess with the Fire Tablet settings where it is work).  Will that help?  Or is there a known issue with @NTLWorld.com email addresses under Virgin Media now?

Any pointers you can provide would be welcomed.

Many thanks

Jim

6 REPLIES 6

jpeg1
Alessandro Volta

To add a new device you now have to follow the procedure here

https://www.virginmedia.com/help/broadband/manage-email-account

- jpeg1
My name is NOT Alessandro. That's just a tag Virginmedia sticks on some contributors. Please ignore it.

Daniel_Et
Forum Team
Forum Team

Hi @jimk11 👋 Thank you for your post and welcome to the Virgin Media Community 😀

We're sorry to hear about the problem you're having 😔

Have you tried following the advice provided by @jpeg1? If so, has it resolved the matter?

Please pop back to us at your earliest convenience.

Regards,
Daniel

Yes i have and I cannot work out how to get an app password for my ntlworld.com account that I have had for over 20 years

 

BIgTradioman
On our wavelength

Watching as this is getting harder to do now

 

jpeg1
Alessandro Volta

Yes, everything to do with VM email is getting harder. I don't think that is an accident.  Sooner or later it will become necessary to use a more reliable email service, as many are finding out right now. 

- jpeg1
My name is NOT Alessandro. That's just a tag Virginmedia sticks on some contributors. Please ignore it.

Hi BigTradioman, 

We're sorry to hear you're having an issue with getting an app password. 

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.

Thanks, 

Kath_P
Forum Team
Wishing you & your family a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

New around here? Check out the do's and don'ts, in our Community FAQs