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I haven't posted since the 23rd Mel. Just saying.......

My big adventure was a great success :-D

No we hav'nt heard from Ann since the 26th. Hope she's ok.

Morning Anng and all,

Grey skies here today and it rained quite a bit yesterday afternoon so everywhere is wet.

Nothing planned for today so will see how the day pans out.

Did we hear from Ann yesterday I can't remember and I am not going back a page to look as I shall lose all this. I'll post and do it now.

Good morning all very grey here and 5 degrees, slept well until 0315, woke for the loo then just could not get back to sleep, just dozed until I decided to get up at 0700. not good for a day when I have to go into gloucester. Next battle is to see how many buses are running/cancelled. I have to go as I have a chiropodist appointment.

Paying for your email account Mel? Did I read that right or maybe it is for the phone package. Best get it sorted if paying too much anyway. :-D

Vera Anng and I are all sorted now. I went into help and got a text box up where you can ask questions and after a lot of texting they gave me a number to ring and to press O and I did that and had to wait a little while and then I spoke to a very nice man who was very patient with me . I had also somehow could'nt get into my emails when I tried to log in but he and I made a new password and then he put me through to a lady who sorted the rest.

I feel drained now and hav'nt done anything else. They are going to put me on a new package for myself by Friday and apparently oh had the email account since 2010 and was paying far too much.

But at least you are sorted Mel and have the satisfaction that you got it done yourself. Well done.

Vera, reading that lot I am confused now and I wasn't before :-D :-D

but it looks as though it may have been a blip and nobody blocked anybody! <3

Yes got it and I have answered you.Been on the phone most of the morning trying to sort this and the account out. Now its 3.30pm and Iv'e not done another thing.

I must feed the fish.

How very odd :-S There certainly seems to be some sort of gremlin on the line between you and AnnG, Mel. If she had accidentally blocked you she wouldn't have been receiving your emails, would she?

Just out of interest in case I or OH have a similar problem I did a lot of googling this afternoon both for answers from BT and from Outlook. Very few of the answers seemed relevant to me except for one on Outlook which is the one I found before and that's a doddle to use. In case anyone else goes through Outlook and has the problem: blocked emails go into the junk folder, so if you click on Junk in the ribbon bar at the top you can block or unblock emails, or click on junk options to see your list of blocked senders.

Outlook is from Microsoft and comes with Microsoft Office which is often preloaded on to computers when you buy them. Once upon a time everyone seemed to have Outlook but I think a lot of people are using Gmail now. They are both "email clients" and as I hadn't got a clue what that is I googled

"What is an Email Client? An Email Client is a desktop program that allows users to access their emails on their computer without having to log in via the web. They are linked to email accounts through POP3 or IMAP addressing. This means they can handle email for accounts with ISPs and other non-webmail services"

Sorry, I didn't mean to lecture you but I find it intriguing that we all use our computers differently and I hate not understanding what tools do.

Mel As I said when I replied to you I have never blocked anyone. But your subsequent emails look as though something is fixed. did you get the photo I sent to you? I didn't reply straight away as I was out.

man at bt thinks you may have blocked me

anng have you accidently blocked me because bt says i hav'nt got you blocked

trying to do the bt thing I have messed everything up and now can't get into my email so I may not be around for a while.

I'm not on outlook either as far as I know.

I have had to sign into my account when accessing it on a computer in Tenerife/Lannzarote but that was quite a while ago. Occasionally if my PC has been off line I get a request from google to sign in to my account. I am not with outlook and neither are any of my family.

I have never had to sign in to any account to access my emails AnnG, even before we were with BT. I assume it depends on how you account is set up but I think the majority of people are on Outlook, as we are. I know I found out how to do it before and it was easy once you discovered the method. I’ll have a look later, probably this afternoon as I am also out this morning.

Mel, when you read your emails what do they open in? Is it Outlook?

Morning all,

It 14 degrees here according to the pc and partly sunny which is just about right.

I am on BT and I went into setting and got nothing like you said Anng.

Shoppings coming this mroring and just one sub.

I don't have tim eto fiddle around with the pc this morning but have lots to sort out today.

I think it just means open your email account Vera, I don't think many people sign in daily. But that is how I read it
I think it means finding settings in your email account. But if you can't understand it either than obviously not very clear instructions. I actually googled "how to unblock a contact on btinternet" and quite a lot came up.

as I am not on BT maybe it would be easier to understand if you were to google exactly the same as I did Vera to help Mel. There are quite a few answers to the question by other people. Maybe it is not as straightforward as it sounds at first.

I am out this morning so don't have any time to look into it further at the moment.

Morning

Boy, it was cold last night. The first time since last winter that I’ve really felt cold.. iPad is telling me it’s currently 6 degrees but feels like 3. Brrr..

Tbh, AnnG, I’m with BT too and I don’t understand those instructions. “Sign in to your BT Mail account” ? Does that mean on the BT website? I don’t know where you would sign in otherwise. I did work out.for Mel before how to do it, assuming that she is using Outlook. I can’t remember now what I did. I’m out for a while later but I’ll have another play on the computer when I get back.

good morning all 8 degrees here, fairly bright and dry so far.

I was thinking, as I got up at 0700, when I was working, (only about 10 minutes walk down the road from here), I would be up at 0645 and in work by 0740. Can't imagine actually doing that now.