Migrated from BT to a better ISP - question over BT email and pay as you go?

Hi,

After a week of being with Zen, and umpteen calls to BT to get them to
admit I had left their BB servce - i.e.

BT > (who gave you a mac code, your still with us and your service is
active (bullshit, was active with Zen 1am 01/12/05), you are now
upgraded to 2Mb with a new 12 month contract (I have had 2Mb for well
over a year, ever since the on-line app for upgrade went head and my
exchange was enabled - BT idiots), 5 diff departments all telling me
something different, but all still claiming I was with BT)!!!!)

they now say I will get most of the month ahead charge refunded and my
ADSL with them is indeed cancelled (from the 5/12, not the 01/12 -
a-holes), they said my BT email was still active and would be
pay-as-you-go - what the hell does that mean?

I do not want any email with BT - I have Zen, Newsguy, EN, Yahoo,
work, etc - are they still going to charge me or something? What else
could pay as you go mean?

nospa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> Hi,

> they now say I will get most of the month ahead charge refunded and my
> ADSL with them is indeed cancelled (from the 5/12, not the 01/12 -
> a-holes), they said my BT email was still active and would be
> pay-as-you-go - what the hell does that mean?

It means that your old BT account has been changed to PAYG dial-up. You
will be able to send and receive BT mails by dialling in on an 0845
access number. If you don't use it for 3 to 6 months it will probably
die completely.

You should still be able to *receive* mail from your BT account via
POP3 using your mail client while connected via Zen

On 7 Dec 2005 04:53:33 -0800, "Mark Carver" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>
>nospa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>> Hi,
>
>> they now say I will get most of the month ahead charge refunded and my
>> ADSL with them is indeed cancelled (from the 5/12, not the 01/12 -
>> a-holes), they said my BT email was still active and would be
>> pay-as-you-go - what the hell does that mean?
>
>It means that your old BT account has been changed to PAYG dial-up. You
>will be able to send and receive BT mails by dialling in on an 0845
>access number. If you don't use it for 3 to 6 months it will probably
>die completely.
>
>You should still be able to *receive* mail from your BT account via
>POP3 using your mail client while connected via Zen

Thanks for the clarification.

btw - Zen's a dream compared to BT. I get the feeling of good,
technical support, people that care, a proper ISP by all means.

Trying to get anyone in BT to understand anything you try to explain
to them is a waste of breath.

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
(E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>>
>> You should still be able to *receive* mail from your BT account via
>> POP3 using your mail client while connected via Zen
>
> Thanks for the clarification.
>
You should* probably also be able to *send* mail from your BT address while
connected to Zen - as long as you set up the account in your email client
(Outlook or whatever) to use BT's pop server but Zen's smtp server. [I am
able to send mail from my Freeserve account while connected to PlusNet by
doing this].

* As long as Zen doesn't block outgoing emails which don't have a Zen
address
--
Cheers,
Tim
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On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:39:38 +0000, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After a week of being with Zen, and umpteen calls to BT to get them to
> admit I had left their BB servce - i.e.
>
> BT > (who gave you a mac code, your still with us and your service is
> active (bullshit, was active with Zen 1am 01/12/05), you are now
> upgraded to 2Mb with a new 12 month contract (I have had 2Mb for well
> over a year, ever since the on-line app for upgrade went head and my
> exchange was enabled - BT idiots), 5 diff departments all telling me
> something different, but all still claiming I was with BT)!!!!)
>
> they now say I will get most of the month ahead charge refunded and my
> ADSL with them is indeed cancelled (from the 5/12, not the 01/12 -
> a-holes), they said my BT email was still active and would be
> pay-as-you-go - what the hell does that mean?
>
> I do not want any email with BT - I have Zen, Newsguy, EN, Yahoo,
> work, etc - are they still going to charge me or something? What else
> could pay as you go mean?

I'm in a similar position with BT..

I use BT business dial up - they host my domain and mail etc.

I connect to the net using Zen ADSL - BT sucks. I send and receive using ZEN and
I also send via smtp BT server (smtp suthentication) as a backup.

Never had to use it though.

doz