POP3 and SMTP prob with BT

Hi all,

my niece has just signed up with the BT broadband basic service.......

all is working fine except she cant find the right settings for her POP3 and
SMTP for bt......i've guessed a load of time but when she tries to
send/receive.......it generates an error saying........cannot connect...

Can some kind person put us out of our misery and tell us exactly what the
settings are....

The help CD isnt much help to be honest..

Thanks in Advance...

DB

Try
http://www.plus.net/support/adsl/ads...ll_guide.shtml
though you'd need to modify for BT.

{you may need to log in; use guest as user name+
password].
BT website probably has similar page on its website

David Brown blurted on Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:07:52 GMT:

> Hi all,
>
> my niece has just signed up with the BT broadband basic service.......
>
> all is working fine except she cant find the right settings for her POP3 and
> SMTP for bt......i've guessed a load of time but when she tries to
> send/receive.......it generates an error saying........cannot connect...
>
> Can some kind person put us out of our misery and tell us exactly what the
> settings are....
>
> The help CD isnt much help to be honest..
>
> Thanks in Advance...
>
> DB

If you mean the BT BB no Frills then it doesn't come with Email or News
Service, you have to find a 3rd party Pop Server...

--
Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
*Clifford Stoll*

David Brown wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> my niece has just signed up with the BT broadband basic service.......
>
> all is working fine except she cant find the right settings for her POP3 and
> SMTP for bt......i've guessed a load of time but when she tries to
> send/receive.......it generates an error saying........cannot connect...
>
> Can some kind person put us out of our misery and tell us exactly what the
> settings are....

Isn't the basic service the one that doesn't include a POP3 and SMTP
service as standard - hence the name basic and the cheap price?

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:39:55 +0000, Hiram Hackenbacker
<(E-Mail Removed)> strung together this:

>Isn't the basic service the one that doesn't include a POP3 and SMTP
>service as standard - hence the name basic and the cheap price?

That's what I was going to say. You don't get mail with the basic
service AFAIK.
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SJW
Please reply to group or use 'usenet' in email subject

"David Brown" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:cvHzd.57354$(E-Mail Removed). uk...
> Hi all,
>
> my niece has just signed up with the BT broadband basic service.......
>
> all is working fine except she cant find the right settings for her POP3
> and
> SMTP for bt......i've guessed a load of time but when she tries to
> send/receive.......it generates an error saying........cannot connect...
>
> Can some kind person put us out of our misery and tell us exactly what the
> settings are....
>
> The help CD isnt much help to be honest..
>
> Thanks in Advance...
>
> DB


David,

I'm on BT BBBasic, and use my original (pre BTBBBasic) ISP's pop3 server
address, and for the smtp server (the sending bit) I use -
smtp.btopenworld.com - which has worked successfully for me best part of
this year.

hope this helps

dfrog

Thanks all for the info.......

i didnt have anything todo with how she signed up......( my sis. did
it...nuff said)

i'll try the BTopenworld method tomorrow and see what happens....

previous posts say there isnt a mail option on this account.......sems odd
but then again i havent seen alll the bumph that came with the installation
cd.........but email would seem an absolute basic option.

Dave



"dfrog" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> "David Brown" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:cvHzd.57354$(E-Mail Removed). uk...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > my niece has just signed up with the BT broadband basic service.......
> >
> > all is working fine except she cant find the right settings for her POP3
> > and
> > SMTP for bt......i've guessed a load of time but when she tries to
> > send/receive.......it generates an error saying........cannot connect...
> >
> > Can some kind person put us out of our misery and tell us exactly what
the
> > settings are....
> >
> > The help CD isnt much help to be honest..
> >
> > Thanks in Advance...
> >
> > DB
>
>
> David,
>
> I'm on BT BBBasic, and use my original (pre BTBBBasic) ISP's pop3 server
> address, and for the smtp server (the sending bit) I use -
> smtp.btopenworld.com - which has worked successfully for me best part of
> this year.
>
> hope this helps
>
> dfrog
>
>
>
>

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 00:35:30 GMT, "DB"
<db002a3121@(nospam)blueyonder.co.uk> strung together this:

>previous posts say there isnt a mail option on this account.......sems odd
>but then again i havent seen alll the bumph that came with the installation
>cd.........but email would seem an absolute basic option.
>
You'd have thought so wouldn't you, BT have different ideas..
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SJW
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DB wrote:

> previous posts say there isnt a mail option on this account.......sems odd
> but then again i havent seen alll the bumph that came with the installation
> cd.........but email would seem an absolute basic option.

Email, in the form of webmail, is available and all described on the BT
website. You did specify a POP3 account which isn't available as standard.

Visit BTBroadband.com and look at the options available.

In article <(E-Mail Removed). com>,
(E-Mail Removed), a.k.a says...

> Try
> http://www.plus.net/support/adsl/ads...ll_guide.shtml
> though you'd need to modify for BT.

That page will be of no use to them whatsoever.