Help!? We're happy to keep our long standing email address, decades - f2s.com, and TalkTalk has been kind enough to allow this. However, when we changed from TalkTalk Business to Residential, for various reasons, our email remained with TalkTalk Business, with a different email server than is listed anywhere else on any TalkTalk webpage offering guidance. We've had a bad few months with things digital, and that includes a curious update from Microsoft for Windows 10 that ended up with our having to wipe the drive and do a raw reinstall of Windows 10. In the process we lost our other software tools, including our email software, Microsoft Outlook. I've been chasing up those missing tools and after a successful and unproblematic reinstall of Microsoft Office, including Outlook, the next important want was to re-enter our email account with TalkTalk. I had written down the details beforehand, the server being 'mail.overssl.net'. Here's where the problems occured. Eventually I managed to get part of it to work, but it wasn't right, only the Inbox showed, nothing else. I called and after some confusion jumping through hoops I had a long roundabout with folks at TalkTalk, who at first hadn't a clue at all, obviously the wrong department to start with, and then gave me and emailed me with links to what's online here - and none of it is relevant to either what I'd had from before, so useless. Here's what I know from the past, needing to know exactly all the details I need to receive and send email via our address with TalkTalk - Email Server Settings:
• Username: e-mail address - - - @f2s.com
• Server type: IMAP
• Incoming e-mail server: mail.overssl.net
• Incoming port: 993
Encryption method: ? SSL/TLS ?
[ ? ] Requires logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)
• Outgoing e-mail server: mail.overssl.net
• Outgoing port: 465 previous / (587 via phone, 11/07/2023, which doesn't work...)
? • Outgoing authentication: On ?
? - • Outgoing SSL: Yes - only Outgoing ?
Encryption method: ? SSL/TLS ?
[ ? ] Requires logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)
- I also tried two phone numbers but only was kept on hold with the usual background music, except one time it eventually rang - then went dead... I'll try again tomorrow, but maybe someone here knows what we need and will share that knowledge with me before more hangin' on the phone... It's my wife's laptop too, so the sooner I can sort all this out for her the better for us both... Here's hoping...
cerdd-i-pax
