Spoof email from BT about email account

FloFlo

I gave in went to bt support page and signed up to move to premium email for £1.60 per month and got to submit page and got this message
Sorry…

There's been a technical error – but you can still place your order online.
To order a Broadband and Calls package with optional TV, click here
To add BT Vision to your existing BT broadband package, click here
To order BT Sport on Sky, click here
To order BT Sport on Sky with BT broadband, click here
To order a new phone line, click here
To switch your calls back to BT click here
Ref# CON-0003


So now don't know whether it has gone through or not! And no way to sign up! This just gets worse.

Redone the application and it seems to have gone through.

Derek_S_2

1. Sign up for a free Hotmail account and change all your online accounts to new address (Amazon, paypal etc. ...) I found that if I chose .co.uk as the email suffix I was able to get my exact email name I have had with T21 for 15 years

2. Download and install Mozilla Thunderbird free email programme (the Firefox browser people)

3. Thunderbird will ask you to enter your email account details - Note this carefully - example, if your talk21 email address is " [EMAIL="john.smith@talk21.com"]john.smith@talk21.com[/EMAIL]" enter into thunderbird "[EMAIL="john.smith.t21@btinternet.com"]john.smith.t21@btinternet.com[/EMAIL]" and then your normal Talk21 password. (BT have migrated your address accordingly)

Thunderbird will find and apply all relevant settings.

4. press all the continue prompts and your email account will appear in the left hand pane.

5. In the right hand pane (Email accounts, accounts, advanced features.........)

6. select advanced features - manage folder subscriptions

5. Thunderbird will show all your talk21 folders - all selected

6. Select ok then in the left pane select the t21@btinternet account and all your folders will appear.

7. click on each one and all the emails in them will be downloaded (I got the occasional error "resubmit your password" error but just closed and ignored it moving on to the next folder which worked fine, then went back and all fine.

You now have a local copy of all your stuff - I have 15 years of it which I did not want to frig about checking and deleting or forwarding etc.

8 This is the hyper important one - send an email to BT and tell them to F***off :-)

vofs007

mikeymike123 wrote: »

I don't know the exact data protection rules but I suppose it's possible that in theory they could phone BT and ask for the password to my account. But I'm not sure how they'd know I've linked my account to them. As it won't cost them anything it won't show up in a bill.

In short, if you have a friend who has BT Broadband, ask them to link your email address to their account!

The email address will appear as a subaccount to your friend's primary account. Because of this they have complete control over the account and can change the password, delete it etc.
So to use this method you need to have a reliable friend.

Uxb

Apparantely BThave announced a "stay of execution" on this
Those affected now have the opportunity to migrate free for 1 year to their premium service.

If 1 year doesn't give them enough time to sort out their email lives god help this country.
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/6015-bt-makes-closure-of-talk21-a-little-less-painful.html

(They will be back in a year having done nothing screaming that BT have given them 5 days notice of pay up or be switched off.......)

vofs007

FloFlo wrote: »

I have a btinternet and a btopenworld email addy that both come through one bt yahoo account, but I also have several btyahoo.co.uk email addresses that I set up through their spam guard as disposable email addresses - my question is if I pay the £1.60 a month will these disposable email addys still work or are btyahoo email addys going?

Currently disposable address's are going. BT might come out with a migration mechanism but do not count on it.

Jivesinger

Uxb wrote: »

Apparantely BThave announced a "stay of execution" on this
Those affected now have the opportunity to migrate free for 1 year to their premium service.

If 1 year doesn't give them enough time to sort out their email lives god help this country.
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/6015-bt-makes-closure-of-talk21-a-little-less-painful.html

(They will be back in a year having done nothing screaming that BT have given them 5 days notice of pay up or be switched off.......)

I notice the deadline for action has moved from 16 Sept to 30 Sept, and the BT page has been updated with an FAQ of "Is the email I've received telling me about these changes genuine?" :rotfl: Well maybe if they'd looked less like spam in the first place...

frugalstephen

Derek_S wrote: »

1. Sign up for a free Hotmail account and change all your online accounts to new address (Amazon, paypal etc. ...) I found that if I chose .co.uk as the email suffix I was able to get my exact email name I have had with T21 for 15 years

2. Download and install Mozilla Thunderbird free email programme (the Firefox browser people)

3. Thunderbird will ask you to enter your email account details - Note this carefully - example, if your talk21 email address is " [EMAIL="john.smith@talk21.com"]john.smith@talk21.com[/EMAIL]" enter into thunderbird "[EMAIL="john.smith.t21@btinternet.com"]john.smith.t21@btinternet.com[/EMAIL]" and then your normal Talk21 password. (BT have migrated your address accordingly)

Thunderbird will find and apply all relevant settings.

4. press all the continue prompts and your email account will appear in the left hand pane.

5. In the right hand pane (Email accounts, accounts, advanced features.........)

6. select advanced features - manage folder subscriptions

5. Thunderbird will show all your talk21 folders - all selected

6. Select ok then in the left pane select the t21@btinternet account and all your folders will appear.

7. click on each one and all the emails in them will be downloaded (I got the occasional error "resubmit your password" error but just closed and ignored it moving on to the next folder which worked fine, then went back and all fine.

You now have a local copy of all your stuff - I have 15 years of it which I did not want to frig about checking and deleting or forwarding etc.

8 This is the hyper important one - send an email to BT and tell them to F***off :-)

Great post, thank you. However, I downloaded the mozilla email application, and followed your instructions. Unfortunately, the option you highlight of downloading your existing folders did not appear as you stated, and as a result, I now have 30,000 messages in my new 'inbox', and the date tags are a mess, so I have 5 year old messages appearing under yesterdays date! Nightmare. (I too have 15 years worth of stuff). I have version 17.0.8 just in case it's different to yours? I suppose it's too late now to try & download my folders & sort stuff?

Uxb

Next one up is O2 to close their email platform for all mobile customers.......
http://www.o2.co.uk/o2email

caroline_2

Do the O2 guru instructions at the bottom of the O2 page to migrate your O2 email account work if used to migrate your email account from BT? I would think they should?
Shows how lacking BT tech support is, not knowing if it's spam and not providing migration instructions for those who thought a free email account would remain free - providing BT with an opportunity to get in touch with you and try to sell you other services.

dp1

I have a BT email address but no longer have broadband from them. I think I probably deleted their email after my holiday when I had loads to delete....have a Sky email too, but have always used BT one and haven't changed anything over.
I was just going to add my BT email address to my dad's broadband account but it asks for a reference number off the email.....any way round this?
Tried to ring BT but they're very very busy!