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Sending email using your own domain

Introduction Email is evolving new methods to combat spoofing of email addresses.  While there used to be no checks on what email servers can be used by particular domains, that is no longer the case. Consequently when sending using your own domain u...

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ravenstar68 by Very Insightful Person
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Orphan Email accounts

IntroductionThis information applies to all four Virgin Media Email domains.virgin.netvirginmedia.comblueyonder.co.ukntlworld.comCustomers are increasingly coming on the Forum's after having email accounts locked/deleted.  This post looks at one of t...

ravenstar68 by Very Insightful Person
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Outgoing Authentication Issues? - Check Email Logs

IntroductionThere have been a number of threads on the boards lately where people have been seeing the password prompt pop up when trying to send e-mails.While the symptom is the same for many users, there are actually a number of possible causes.Bro...

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ravenstar68 by Very Insightful Person
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Ravenstar's Email FAQ's

The aim of this thread is to collate some of the stickies I have made in the past into one thread. In here you will find the following FAQ's Understanding Email Block ListsSPF, DKIM, and DMARC explainedGeneric/Dynamic host names prohibited - an expla...

ravenstar68 by Very Insightful Person
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Deleting ntlworld account

Tried to do what previous posts on this subject has suggested but as no longer a virgin media customer. cannot log into my account to delete my old ntlworld email account. Any helpful suggestions?

chalaw by Joining in
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Unable to connect to the outgoing server - Unable to send emails

Friday 9th February 2024.Around 14:00 Lost internet service also noticed that I was unable to access the SMTP server to send any emails.Checked Virgin Media service and saw that there was work being carried out on the mail server and was due to be co...

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Help! Old Virgin blueyonder email hacked by scammers.

Hello. I'm after some urgent help.My old Virgin email address was hacked over the weekend along with its old password and is being used to open new accounts on different websites.I was a Virgin customer until last January (2023) when I had to cancel ...

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Resolved! IP address blocked

VM have blocked our IP address due to bad e mails they say. Four hours on phone help yesterday got nowhere, passed from pillar to post, no help at all. Cut off several times. Looking at this forum looks like we are not they only ones and the resoluti...

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Can't access email address

Hi , im wondering if anyone has had a similar issue to this or might be able to shed some light on what to do . A few months ago my dads email address was hacked as he had money took out of his account and was unable to access his email account . He ...

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Blueyonder email

I’ve just had 2300 yes 2300 emails appear in my blueyonder email box, some going back to 2017 and 1600 appear in my “sent” box - any idea what is going on?

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Email account - receiving error when adding to iPhone

Hi I am trying to add my email account to another iPhone but I keep getting the message no password provided go to settings mail account….. the password entered is correct as well as the settingscan you help thanks  Bill     [MOD EDIT: Subject title ...

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Resolved! Outgoing e-mails not sending

Probably another thread on a consistent but now really boring issue.I am having trouble sending emails from my 'blueyonder' email account.I believe it may of started when a security update was done or the Virgin server has 'detected' a virus of some ...

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Cannot send email "Your email contains spam" / Blacklisted

So my email address with you: [REMOVED] started to pop up with an error that I cannot send emails out saying. Message could not be sent to the following recipients: ["redacted@gmail.com" <redacted@gmail.com>] (421 - 421 4.2.0 SMTP608 Too many spam em...

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