Given up with BT webmail...

[Technical Ben]

No idea if it is the change from Yahoo that's done it, but as I use Thunderbird (or any client) over a web browser (duh, how else am I to read offline! stupid "provider" telling me what I "need"), and they did not let me know the new settings (just bounced my password/connection) I've had enough.

Previously some setting or another changed and my account gave me a "password re-try limit reached" so I got no emails for a while. Though I suspect it had to do with the spate of hacking attempts on Yahoo/BT accounts.

Add to that the recent inability to log in, and I think I'll migrate everything I have over to IDnet. It's a shorter email anyhow to type. Thankfully the refresh of the email client servers this year fixed my unknown block/crash on IDNet mail. Strange how IDNet fix things, where BT just gets worse and worse.

PS, currently trying to recover my BT emails from their own client, after logging in, selecting "remember password" of the password I have always used, then getting "timed out" and trying to log back in to be greeted by "wrong password" on both the auto saved, retyped and      (can't even bother to finish this sentence)...

[edit]
Well that explains half of it. The page I was on (re-log after timeout) takes me back to the old defunct BTYahoo login script, where starting afresh is the running BT only script. Yeah, none of the rest of BT even comes close to that badly programed... it's worse, having 3 or 4 different conflicting parts, not just the 2!     

[Simon]

Do you feel better for that?   

[Technical Ben]

Yes. Sorry for the rant, but it's been constant from BT. The "stopped your account for a day because too many wrong passwords" and "check your human" stuff. :/

Putting email accounts across as we speak. It's just getting the family name only email address I use across that is a pain as it's refusing my pass and supposedly locked for now. I'll give em a call.

Please IDNet, never, ever, stop doing email. I'll be lost and stuck to using Twitter! 

[Clive]

50% of my spam messages are now scams purporting to be from BT/Yahoo telling me I need to upgrade my account by clicking on a link to provide them with my password.  My sister-in-law was caught by them and lost her account within minutes after the scammers changed her password.  She had to spend a whole day changing her password on her bank accounts and telling people she was *not* stranded in Cyprus after having her handbag containing her credit cards and passport stolen.   

[Technical Ben]

Nice how their own spam filters don't pick up that trick.

Amazing how some sites now check your not a robot on every page. 

[davej99]

Was bringing up a new email client and mistyped a password.  The client ran log on automatically a few times and my IP got blocked on the mail server. One email to IDNET and one intermediate reply from Brian and I was unblocked. (I sound like a drain). My fault and an instant fix from Brian. That is why I like IDNET and would be reluctant to move away.

Dave

[Technical Ben]

Ah, that might have been what happened to me then?

But as for BT, my emails came through this morning. But I still cannot send any.