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Re: Virgin Media dont support Outlook

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Originally Posted by Brighteyes (Post 34985518)

It's also expensive when virgin help is on a prime charging number

Virgin tech support for in scope services and programs is free on 151 when you have a Virgin landline

Re: Virgin Media dont support Outlook

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Originally Posted by Brighteyes (Post 34985518)

It's all right for you geeks who work in the media and know a bit about computers, but us numpties find these things difficult when we have been used to a landline modem. It's also expensive when virgin help is on a prime charging number. Even then I have got and you might get a numpty working for Virgin. It wasn't in the Netgear instruction book or cd either on changing settings for email.

It's not just "Us Geeks" who know about Google. It's the numptys who still insist on using Bing!:angel:

BTW I don't work in the industry, 99% of what I've learnt has been found through Google/forums etc. I don't expect to be nanneyed all the time.(Thinks-must google my spelling:D)

Re: Virgin Media dont support Outlook

What I liked about Outlook was that your emails got downloaded so you could work on them offline. What I hated was that I never could back it up - all my contacts, calendar and emails could have been lost. And you couldn't copy an email message to a doc including sender date etc. I ended up forwarding them to myself.
Things got worse with a new laptop - nobody warned me about vista. Then VM went over to google platform, Outlook email no longer worked and I had to get my Blueyonder mail via webmail. Everything else went wrong, messages like "Firefox can't find Google" "Your MS Office is illegal" etc. slowdowns, gibberish typing (cursor slipping into line above), etc. So I finally decided to "get a Mac".
It's wonderful, EXCEPT for emails: hours and hours of phone calls with well-meaning VM and Mac techies, resetting each others' settings, even logging on to my computer, resulted in a complete mess, with some Blueyonder emails but not all arriving in Mac mail. Apple shop people puzzled. Then a young genius decided I should do IMAP and all my emails flooded in, complete with gmail-labels. But now I can't find them and I get nothing into Mac mail and outgoing ones are blocked. Had to go back to VM webmail, which frequently says oops can't get back to inbox. Why can't they talk to each other?