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Re: Printer. O/T

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In article <526c2e2a86alan.dawes@argonet.co.uk>,
   Alan Dawes <alan.dawes@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <4afcde6b52.Broadband@thomas.smith57.virginmedia.com>,
>    T M Smith <thomas.smith57@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > he can browse the 
> > web but has been unable to set up an email account using Thunderbird

> BT should have provided him with a BT email address and password as well
> as a User name and password - have a look throuh all the letters they
> have sent him (of course that info may have been sent to him by email to
> his new BT address ! or to the preferred email address he gave them when
> he set up the account) any other email address will need to be linked to
> his BT account in order to use their mail system etc to help prevent
> spammers using their system. I had to set this up some years ago in
> order to use my existing argonet and riscos addresses.

> The POP3 server and SMTP server are both mail.btinternet.com and the
> security or authentication setting is the main email address and password
> as supplied by BT - NOT the separate User name and password that BT
> supply. I think I had to set the port but cannot remember - the URL below
> suggests port 25 or 587.

I've just noticed that for POP3 I have port 110 configured.

> The news server is news.btconnect.com and the security / authentication
> setting is the User name and password that BT supplies (NOT email and
> password).


> The following url might help:

> http://www.pdoc.co.uk/btbroadband.shtml

> which also has links to the BT site.

> Alan

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alan.dawes@argonet.co.uk
alan.dawes@riscos.org
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Printer Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-05 14:13 +0000
  Re: Printer. O/T T M Smith <thomas.smith57@ntlworld.com> - 2012-03-05 21:15 +0000
    Re: Printer. O/T Alan Dawes <alan.dawes@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-06 11:40 +0000
      Re: Printer. O/T Alan Dawes <alan.dawes@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-06 13:04 +0000
        Re: Printer. O/T Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-06 16:40 +0100
        Re: Printer. O/T T M Smith <thomas.smith57@ntlworld.com> - 2012-03-06 23:17 +0000
  Re: Printer Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-05 21:28 +0000
    Re: Printer Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-06 07:04 +0000
      Re: Printer Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-06 07:39 +0000
        Re: Printer M Harding <riscos@mdharding.org.uk> - 2012-03-06 10:27 +0000
          Re: Printer Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-06 16:16 +0000

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