Blimey! Silent secret moderators who are under orders to be silent Monks, sitting in judgement upon us mortals! What is the world coming to with creepy censors lurking in the background.
I reckon even those are just reporting to O2 which customers to "watch". Let's hope they are really feeding back details of what we lot are tearing our hair out over.
I do see your point about how they are pushing a sales portal but there isn't any need to be like that. I mean look at BT, they have at least got a way of looking after all the customers who want to access webmail, even after they were all merged up with Yahoo. Their site is a mess but I can just get straight into my webmail.
Another thing about Webmail while I'm on the topic, BT used to filter out spam into a spam folder and it was receiving on my account at least 150 spam messages a day and I used to go in every three days or so and trawl through it all in case something important got pushed into the spam that I wanted to receive. But suddenly after December 2008 they seem to have finally discovered how to remove the real spam before it gets there as my account on btinternet now gets only about 6 spam messages a day at the most. So what have they started doing right all of a sudden.
Freeserve used to be like that with millions of spam messages coming in and you had to delete them a page at a time which took an age to load. I got so fed up with it I let the account kill itself over 90 days and never used it again.
I'm glad I managed to help someone on here with a quick pathway to the webmail. I don't even need a link now, I just go to O2 home page and click the drop down list for MyO2 and then get the webmail page.
One thing I really like about o2 is their smtp mail sending server is an OPEN one. This means that I can send email out from another identity such as my broadband home one which is waitrose.com and it posts through the O2 server when I'm connected to O2 mobile broadband. Most servers reject that and only allow POP3 mail collection from other accounts.
I've already worked out how to send email out to someone using my O2 email identity, but with the email appearing to be from one of my other email addresses. This is a good way of sending email to a Company when you are doing business with them but you don't want them to know your real Email address, in case they put you on a spamming list. I know it's not strictly playing the game by the rule book but you have to box a bit clever with emails to stay out in front of being caught out.
This only applies to email sent from Outlook Express or Thunderbird, as you can't spoof an identity on webmail headers.
Thanks to all for listening to my ranting on.
You've all been very useful and helpful.
Cheers
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Plado
