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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 an old blueyonder email account

Hello,Please can someone help me in deleting an old blueyonder email account. I am no longer with Virgin Media and have no password to get into the account anymore. Unfortunately the account has been hacked and needs deleting urgently.Thanks.

Relay of own email domain names

It appears to be a known issue that as of yesterday, those of us who host our own email servers are no longer able to relay emails from our own domain names through VM smtp servers.This appears to be since authentication was enabled.I'll use example....

pure-skill by On our wavelength
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Resolved! Outlook link to Virgin email

Until Friday evening I was happily using Outlook as my main email system in sync with the underlying Virgin email. When I switched on on Saturday morning I had been locked out of my Virgin email completely and Outlook was not able to send/receive. A ...

Can't send emails and can't access my webmail or my broadband account

For 2 days now unable to send emails from Outlook. Tried to log in to webmail and my broadband account for bills. In each case log in was accepted but then a message in BOTH cases saying I need to renew my contract. So couldn't get into webmail or bi...

dilysj1 by Tuning in
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Email not sending in Outlook

Hi all,For the last few days my emails have just suddenly stopped sending. Receiving is fine, the web service works perfectly, it is just the outlook email that has stopped sending.I have checked the smtp settings and everything is as it should be.An...

juvuk by On our wavelength
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Close Email Account

Hi, I need some urgent support to delete an old virgin media email. I'm no longer an active account holder since 2016 but kept access to my email. Unfortunately it was hacked and cannot be resecured. They're using this email to attempt to compromise ...

ScottA90 by Joining in
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Resolved! Old email account

I’m no longer a VM account holder anymore (we moved home  about 18 months ago) and would like to close down my old main email account that we don’t use anymore please. We can no longer sign in to close our 2 other additional mail accounts either. 

Loopy4 by Joining in
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