Re: Virgin Media dont support Outlook
 

That's just it. They add support for Outlook. Where do they end? Pegasus? Eudora? Thunderbird? The Bat? Opera Mail? Or, any one of the 100s of other mail clients available on Windows? What about the Mac? What about Linux? FreeBSD? any Unix or Unix clone? What about phones/PDAs? The iPhone, any Android handset? Windows Mobile? Symbian (Series 40, 60, 90 or UIQ)? I don't know how many email clients there are, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were 1000s of email clients available on all those platforms I listed.

Unfortunately, while it would be nice for Virgin (or any ISP) to support every available email client, but as you note, it is not practical.

Re: Virgin Media dont support Outlook
 

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No need to get cross! It confuses the discussion. I did see your contribution but you must have missed my early contributions.
The short answer to your question is that many inexperienced users cannot configure Outlook as their email client using the latter's "new" account settings.
A newcomer was complaining that he could not use Outlook with VM who would not help him. I explained how to do it. And yes , yes, a lot of users like him do complain as shown by this thread which started a very long while ago.

I personally have been able to run Outlook with Blueyonder since the latter started years ago.
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Re: Virgin Media dont support Outlook
 

Me, cross, nope :).

OK, I see the point your making. I don't agree though, like others have said, where do you draw the line?

My question as to what issues you had with Outlook comes from the fact that you made reference to the fact that you thought that Virgin were operating non standard mail services (POP3/SMTP) which i took to mean you(or someone you knew) was having more of a problem than getting the mailbox and sending/receiving settings right.

Re: Virgin Media dont support Outlook
 

Erm, how does a thread that , over the space of 1 year, has had 2 (or possibly 3) users who are having problems with Outlook, show that a lot of users are having problems?

Re: Virgin Media dont support Outlook
 

As I have said earlier Virgin do not support products that are not bundled with the operating systems regardless of how much you and others think they should be as this would entail extra training and relevant software to be installed on our systems which in turn would increase the cost of the service which by default makes it a non starter.

If you have to downloaded it, bought it, got it free with a magazine and want to install it on your system then Virgin will not support that product as it is a "THIRD PARTY PRODUCT" no ifs or buts.

You want to access Virgin email easily then use webmail, if you want to use an unsupported email client then find out how to use it and do not sulk when you call in and we say sorry its unsupported but we can help you install Outlook Express or Windows Mail.

Re: Virgin Media dont support Outlook
 

Just to point out - the 'operating systems' are THIRD PARTY products.

Re: Virgin Media dont support Outlook
 

Enough with the technicalities! They are providing an internet connection which requires an operating system to be used. Virgin have chosen to support the operating system which the majority of their customers and in fact the majority of everyone use so that they can support as many customers as they can.

Re: Virgin Media dont support Outlook
 

I use Linux which is unsupported and also Windows 7 is unsupported as yet, but without a O/S you have no computer to be supported.


As I said above

Re: Virgin Media dont support Outlook
 

I agree that VM can only support a limited number of products, but it is a bit disingenuous to say they don't support 'third party' products when Windows itself is third party, as are all the users' computers (except the 'netbook offer').

Re: Virgin Media dont support Outlook
 

Third party products that you put on afterwards which is what I have said throughout this thread, without an O/S you have no computer and the netbook uses XP.

Re: Virgin Media dont support Outlook
 

Just a pointer chief!... It still is Telewest and NO we didn't support outlook... we never have. The guys at technical support KNOW fine well that MS Outlook is basically a carbon copy of outlook express... do we want to help you set it up... yes we do... are we permitted to.. No.

Telewest set the support scope on this donkeys years ago.

as for the Richard comment.. NTL Telewest bought the VM name off Mr Branson.

So that company that you used to love and really miss is still that same company with a different name.

Re: Virgin Media dont support Outlook
 

Be interesting to see what VM do about e-mail support when they start supporting Windows 7, then.

Just to clarify, I think it is perfectly understandable and acceptable that VM only support the most common OS and e-mail client. I just think it is a bit disingenuous to claim this is purely because they 'don't support third-part software'.

Re: Virgin Media dont support Outlook
 

It depends if the is anything included with the O/S and if it turns out to be Windows Live Mail thats already unsupported, but if it is up to choose what email client you install then the only support regards email support would be for Webmail and you would have to configure your POP3 client yourself, the same as I and others already do who use the likes of Thunderbird or Outlook.

Re: Virgin Media dont support Outlook
 

It's part of the reason they are pushing Webmail rather than a specific e-mail client.

The move to the Google mail platform will only increase this shift.

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There is no e-mail client supplied with Windows 7. The only 'official' Microsoft client for 7 is Windows Live Mail so it is likely to become supported. Just as Windows Mail is supported for Vista.

Especially as Microsoft themselves have shifted their focus towards Windows Live Mail

But Virgin might be forced to do basic support for programs like Thunderbird and Opera - especially with the browser ballot screen that is likely to be in W7

Re: Virgin Media dint support Outlook
 

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With regard to John T's last post, I understand his position but personally conclude that Virgin are wrong about the way they respond to customers who want to use Outlook as the email client. Outlook is the email client for about half the INTERNET users according to a July 2009 survey (this includes versions back to Outlook for Dos). On the other hand Virgin is the preferred ISP of only a minority of users according to a similar 2009 survey around the same date. Virgin could at least inform its customers that if they first setup email using Outlook Express then they can easily copy the settings into Outlook. It is childish to respond that "Outlook is third party software and not supported". This seems a different class of problem to John T's example of router configuration, I guess the majority of users do not need to know anything about that, though the growth wireless networks is pushing the knowledge forward.

My conclusion is that for a long time cable ISP's were principally concerned with the supply of TV media and did not bother much about internet customers, though competition from the mobile sector may be changing this.

In the end a matter of choice in your ISP, I suppose. if you are not a TV client.
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