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Offline sillgen

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New BT email system
« on: Friday 04 July 14 08:01 BST (UK) »
I have just been changed from the BT Yahoo email to plain BT.   It is driving me mad as it logs me out every half hour, even if I am in the middle of writing an email.    I get error messages saying "The host has not been found" when I try to send emails but after two or three attempts it will send them. Is anyone else having problems?
Any solutions?

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Re: New BT email system
« Reply #1 on: Friday 04 July 14 10:14 BST (UK) »
Hello sillgen

We are with BT.Our email is still BT Yahoo.

I maybe wrong,but I would have thought if any changes were taking place we would have been informed.

Maybe an idea to phone BT.
We had an email,but I didn't feel happy,it turned out to be fake ???

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Re: New BT email system
« Reply #2 on: Friday 04 July 14 10:51 BST (UK) »
"We are with BT.Our email is still BT Yahoo."

Not for much longer.

http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/44789/

Regards

Malky. Look at the bit mentioning "Favourites/Bookmarks".

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Re: New BT email system
« Reply #3 on: Friday 04 July 14 11:14 BST (UK) »
On the email login page of my setup you have two boxes to fill in with email address and password. There is then a blue bar to push to login with.

HOWEVER under this bar is a tiny tick box which keeps me logged in for some days.

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Re: New BT email system
« Reply #4 on: Friday 04 July 14 16:24 BST (UK) »
I got swapped over last week & had all sorts of issues including those you mention.
I shot off a complaint straight away & to be fair they did ring me back the following day or at least their Indian takaway did & told me they were aware of the problem & would have it fixed in 24 hours.....yeah, right.
On hearing that I immediately downloaded Mozilla Thunderbird & have all my emails transferred to that & have had no problems.
Goodbye Yahoo.

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Re: New BT email system
« Reply #5 on: Friday 04 July 14 17:32 BST (UK) »
Mozilla Thunderbird sounds good.  Thanks for that.  I have ticked the keep me logged in box and it makes no difference.

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Re: New BT email system
« Reply #6 on: Friday 04 July 14 17:39 BST (UK) »
Hi
I don't appear to have been changed over yet. Can someone in very simple language explain what Mozilla thunderbird would mean please. I have googled it but  does it mean it simply opens emails using that or does it mean you change your email address?
I have other email addresses I use for work that aren't through BT but my BT one is quite useful so I'd quite like to keep it.
Thanks.
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Re: New BT email system
« Reply #7 on: Friday 04 July 14 19:41 BST (UK) »
BT will still be your email provider.
Thunderbird will move your emails from Yahoo so you can use that to view them.
You can move multiple email addresses + folders & address books.
You can also send emails from Thunderbird using your existing addresses.

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Re: New BT email system
« Reply #8 on: Friday 04 July 14 20:18 BST (UK) »
Hi Jim

It's not quite clear when I read about it. Is it online e-mail, as say gmail is,  or is it the retrograde download type  (with Pop, etc) as Outlook, etc. is?


Gadget

PS - been looking at this:

http://products.secureserver.net/email/email_thunderbird.htm
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