It's not needed when you use SSL encryption and won't work.īT Outgoing Mail Server:
Please don't enable "secure password authentication" (SPA). Username: your email address including the or part SSL Encryption: Enabled (but not STARTTLS) Port: 993 (this should be automatically populated if you tick the SSL Encryption) To over come this problem, try the following which you might find unscrambles BT – Yahoo’s somewhat split personality:īT Incoming Mail Server:
Just don’t bother the person you will speak to or have an online chat with will have no idea what the problem is … or won’t admit to the problem.Īssuming you have done nothing to the configuration of your Outlook client, your internet browser is working, and you can log on to your BT Email via your web mail using your password the problem is most likely a configuration mistake or miss configured software upgrade at BT / Yahoo’s end! “If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP).” The problem presents itself by Email failing to synchronise with a message “Cannot connect to the server. Since BT started moving BT Openreach customers Email accounts between dedicated (sic) BT Servers and BT Yahoo (contracted to provide BT Openreach customers with Email) it has provided (randomly) unreliable when using Microsoft IMAP Outlook clients. The incompetence.īT IMAP Mail with Outlook stops synchronising / downloading I have lots of recordings of phone conversations I had with BT technical support people - they are a real hoot to listen to! The madness. Now I'm so happy I'm free of them at last. It is too much hassle for most people to unravel that, so BT MAKE people pay through the nose because they can.Īs for me, I was sick and tired of all the lies and just ethe sheer rubbish that BT had told me over the years (the promises that they failed to keep 100% of the time, and their "Ingenious Department") and I spent the best part of two days in January unravelling everything. By definition, that is associated with the servers of the original provider, in this case BT.īT charge £7.50 for email addresses (even when they don't work, as was the case with the email address they gave me) because they know that it is the devil's own work to unpick every place that there is a link to your BT email address. Yes, I'm not sure how third-party ISPs claim they can "keep" your original email address.