email question

[walkon40]

Desperate, moi? I know it's a biker website, but unfortunately, not only am I not a born mechanic, but also not IT whizzkid, so maybe I'll find some help here on this one.

Been using Yahoo Mail for the last 6 years or so, and downloading my emails (and sending them) via Outlook (not express). I am now on BT Broadband. Some years ago BT teamed up with Yahoo and did some kind of weird thing that make it apparently somewhat difficult for Outlook to send/receive messages.

Somehow I got the changed settings. somehow I lost them. And i can't send/receive messages via Outlook. BT Broadband engineers can't help (grrrrr). They referred me to Yahoo, but of course noone can get me a phone number Anyone here who can help?

thanks

Martin

 

[BTBR]

Like you, I have been using BT Yahoo and Outlook for years, and also like you they would not help me with any problems associated with it.

In the end, I have given up and switched to Outlook Express, no great shakes to be honest.

Can you not try doing a system restore to go back to the old settings

 

[walkon40]

bt yahoo etc

Hi BTBR

tried that one, doesn't work with my old settings. Are you on BT Broadband as well (cos that's where the problem comes from). System restore doesn't seem to do anything

Martin

 

[BTBR]

Hi BTBR

tried that one, doesn't work with my old settings. Are you on BT Broadband as well (cos that's where the problem comes from). System restore doesn't seem to do anything

Martin

Yes, I am on Broadband as well. In the beginning, and on account that I was still using Outlook, I was in deep doo doo.

Thats when I changed over to Outlook Express and called them back, to be fair, they sorted it out very quickly.

Maybe this is your best option

Again being 100% honest, I have not missed Outlook at all.

 

[YosemitePaul]

Though I don't have BT Broadband. (I use Zen) but do download my mail through a BT/Yahoo account via Outlook.
It works fine and always has done, what settings are you missing??? Can I help??

 

[walkon40]

Well, just opened my OE and found settings in there which I assume date back to when I first had the problem. I was given a BTbroadband account, which I needed to use for the smtp settings, and also had my yahoo account listed. Also found this http://www.pdoc.co.uk/screenshots/o2003_for_bt.htm, which seems a reasonable shot at it, so will try this later (brain not working, serious bout of 'man flu' with temp up to 39.5C ...

Thanks for help so far, will get in touch either way ...

Martin

 

[cookie]

tried recently to get someone's bt mail account to work properly with outlook after they had been using webmail for months. all settings were right, but it would not send.

spoke to a guy in india for 30 minutes. largely a waste of time, but in the end he pointed me at 2 utilities on the bt yahoo site. one sets up outlook automatically, this did FA, but the second one, which checks "authorisation" or something similar (can't remember) ran & problem was gone. god knows what the problem was, but i'm pretty sure it was at their end.

i'd look for the utility myself, but i have to go out

 

[wessie]

You should find some info on BT's NNTP news server.

This google groups thread tells you the names of the relevant groups.
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/al...k=gst&q=outlook+yahoo&rnum=3#fda8626b0e3a2598

Unfortunately, BT does not propagate these groups to the rest of Usenet so, as I'm not a BT subscriber, I can't hunt down the specifics for you.

If you don't have software to read news groups then goto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XanaNews and download the free program coded by an acquaintance. (Windows is shipped with Outlook Express which is the default newsreader).

 

[BTBR]

You should find some info on BT's NNTP news server.

This google groups thread tells you the names of the relevant groups.
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/al...k=gst&q=outlook+yahoo&rnum=3#fda8626b0e3a2598

Unfortunately, BT does not propagate these groups to the rest of Usenet so, as I'm not a BT subscriber, I can't hunt down the specifics for you.

If you don't have software to read news groups then goto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XanaNews and download the free program coded by an acquaintance. (Windows is shipped with Outlook Express which is the default newsreader).

Whooooosh.................

 

[exeter_lad]

Broadband in Forest of Dean

So what rate of broadband do you have?

I moved to the Forest 3 years ago just as they started hand cranking broadband down the wires. I signed up for the top package(about £30 month) and got a 1 meg rate. Really p***ed off the neighbours as they were with other companies and kept getting told they were too far from the exchange to get broadband - even though my house is at the end of the line.

Spent two years receiving promises of upgrades to better and faster services but, as you might guess, I am too far from the exchange. So sod it, I cut my package back to the cheapest one, half the price. So BT cut my rate back by half.

Must admit it would be nice to be back in town with the full limit available. But as that was the only plus side, guess I'll be staying put here in the country.

 

[walkon40]

Hi Exeterlad

got onto broadband probably same time as you, some three years ago now? We have terrible problems with it, depending on weather conditions it constantly disconnects, or if/when the phone rings and you pick up, it disconnects. If it doesn't disconnect, we have bad intereference. We had engineers out etc., nothing improved.
I started on £25, and am now on £15 (up to 8mb, in reality 2mb). It's fine for me, i have to say. however, just saw offer by Vodafone, a total Home package (home phone, broadband and mobile) for £25, wow. Need to check that one out.

Don't really miss town that much, used to live in Bristol til 2002, then moved out here. Now work in Hereford, and commute on my GS there more or less every day. You say you're based in Gloucester, is that denying the Forest cos of the weird and wonderful out here ...

 

[exeter_lad]

Whoops

Good point. Registered with site when I lived in thatwonderful metropolis and never got round to changing it. Will rectify. Even if only to get sympathy for the days my wife persuades to travel in by car in the morning. Oh how I enjoy having the time admire the Apple Tree, Highnam roundabout, and all those other spectacular landmarks at my leisure!

2meg! You must be in the same valley as your exchange! Mine is an out post from Gloucester which, apart from crap speed, means irritation from those knowledgeable folk who say 'You can't live in the Forest, you've got a G********r number!" Don't tell me, tell BT!

 

[walkon40]

I think BT isn't the only one who recently has been wrapped over the knuckles by Ofcom (or whoever is the watchdog), partly because of the 'up to 8mb), which is highly dependent on where you are in relation to the exchange - I live in Coleford, exchange in Lydney, so that's about 7 miles or so, not as crow flies, mind.

Going into Gloucester by car, gulp, about as bad as going into Bristol by car, gulp gulp.

Right, to put this back on track, I have now found some guy who lives in the Southeast who's posted stuff on the web but also can do remote access for a small fee. Arranged with him to make his way into my pc tomorrow and hopefully do what BT doesn't want to do. As said, might be off to Vodafone Broadband soon.
And finally, Exeter lad, whereabouts do you live? Recognisable GS? Maybe a rideout sometime? Anybody else in the Dark Forest with a GS?

Marti

 

[walkon40]

Whooooosh.................

To add to the off-topic part of the thread ... I loved that one, BTBR, 11 out of 10 from me. Will have a look at it myself, but know my own IT skills, I might just duck, dive and cover

Martin