Author: Tim Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Virgin media: good and bad
On Tuesday 27 July 2010 10:56:48 robert.beattie@??? wrote: > >...Nevertheless, if Outlook can connect when given the credentials
> > manually, but not do it automatically, then it is an Outlook problem.
>
> Running Ubuntu 10.04 with Evolution and am now experiencing this same
> problem since Sunday.
>
> <rant> and the thing which really ticks me off about the new Virgin email
> system is that I cannot switch off their spam filter so I can have to trawl
> through those emails on their website. Before, I used to let Evolution
> learn. Also, when downloaded emails are purged from the server, they end up
> in 'bin', but not actually deleted ! Gggrrrrrrrrrrr. </rant>
>
>
> Fortunately I don't have a lot of mail come through my NTL account, but I reset
my account with the new settings a couple of weeks ago and kmail is quite
happily collecting my mail. But I do have my gmail accounted forward to pop and
collect that via kmail without a problem. I do agree the spam folder is a pain
having to logon to my gmail account (and now Virgin) to check. Having said that
I have found the gmail spam system to be very reliable in sorting spam from ham
