is the email received today titled KEEPING YOUR BT EMAIL ACCOUNT SECURE legitimate or scam?
Without knowing the full context of the email it is difficult to say but it is most likely a scam although BT were sending out emails about the settings if you use an email client. It is that take a note of it and check your email client/app settings if you do use one.
If in doubt just treat it as spam and in any event do not click on any links or reply to it.