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Eircom pop access on say BT Broadband service

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  • 11-08-2009 8:43pm
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    formatman
    Registered Users Posts: 794 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I know about having change the outbound SMTP but heard a rumour that Eircom recently restricted POP access for eircom.net email addresses to Eircom Broadband subscribers and one could only use webmail

    Can anyone confirm what the situation is ?

    Basically some will need to use an eircom business email address at my house for a year or more so it would be easier not having to change from BT to Eircom although with BT merging with Vodafone ..might have to ..


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    LiamCr
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭LiamCr


    I POP my Eircom account over Imagine BB, it is still working fine for me.


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    formatman
    Registered Users Posts: 794 ✭✭✭formatman


    Cheers


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    vibe666
    Registered Users Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    if all else fails, do what I do.

    the last eircom.net connection I had was dialup, but i used to wrok for them (many moons ago) and i kept an eircom email address after i left but i now use a gmail account for my main email so I set up pop retreival on that so that gmail collects my eircom mail every few minutes and runs it through their own spam filters go weed out 99% of the junk and then I use gmail pop access to collect my gmail and eircom mail from there with my email client. i also use gmail to send mail via smtp from the same client with my eircom address as the replyto address as it looks a little more civilised than the gmail one.

    it means i get a 5 minute delay on any eircom mail (give or take a few minutes) but it's almost totally spam free and works perfectly with my mail client on my pc.


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