Problems with BT email

Alan – thanks but I have never had any joy with BT Help.  If I can ever get a voice they send my blood pressure soaring, my heart racing and my temper flailing about madly.

Ed. – I have been using TBird for years without any problem.  Not sure why it should arise just now?

Came to the conclusion it was something wrong with the OS so fell back on a clone of happier days.  Trouble was it was about six months old so I had a bit of updating to do. More an inconvenience than anything else.  Anyway so far so good if that is not tempting fate.

Cloning is something that does not seem to get much press.  Plenty of advice round on data security and back-ups but seldom any mention of simply cloning the whole shooting match.  It is simple, quick and requires no brain power.  It took eight mins to restore, about an hour to bring up to date, and then five mins to make a new clone.  So lets have a big shout for CLONING

Hi Ed.  When you say you log in to BT do you mean you log n to your email account at BT then return to TBird, or do you just use the onlineBT Account?  Have you found a permanent cure? :scratch:

Sorry Ed it does not work for me.  I have now got access but not very reliable.  Sometimes I  have to exit TBird then restart it and it works perfectly.  Sometimes it hangs trying to get access to BT then succeeds.  I will try another Version of TBird but I do not expect much success. I have tried MSoft System Repair and Chkdsk.  These usually return rubbish files which suggests something is a recurrent problem.  I have run virus checkers. I might just see if I still have a vacant spinner around and load the OS onto that.  No reason why that should work because we have the problem on four machines including a tablet and two email accounts.  All of which seems to rule out SSD problem, HDD problem, Internet problem, Software problem, Virus Problem, cable problems, overheating problems.  I could, of course, try a different email client and in the final solution reinstal W7, but I do not think that will improve matters either.

Of course, the final final attempt might be to stick my W10 disc back in and try that.

Ain’t life fun!!!

Hi RGB

Thanks for your input.

Perhaps TBird is not entirely to blame but I think it is cross linked somewhere.  Installed eM earlier and spent a couple of hours getting to grips with it and so far it goes like a train (HST variety) so for some reason TBird trips itself up where eM doesn’t.  There are one or two things I have not sussed yet eg I cannot stop it uploading messages to me until asked which in turn means mailwasher (my spam detector) is no uses anymore.  I think I will give Opera a go next.

Thanks again