More info on this, having observed more closely what's happening. Let me walk through this (slowly LOL)
OK, so, been a BT services user since the days of dial up.
My original email account with BT was, let's call it xxx@btinternet.com, and it was then under the auspices of Yahoo mail, subject to all the various changes that have gone on over time.
[ An aside - my primary email client is Thunderbird, handling 6 mail accounts - 3 with BT and 3 with gmail. In my original post, all I saw (I didn't investigate deeply enough at the time) was the flagged failure, which, as I mentioned, also failed on a couple of other 'more basic' mail clients. On closer inspection of the sequence of mail fetching, TB will regularly 'fire up' and try to do a collection of mail from all known accounts registered with it. It appears that in fact all other 5 accounts it knows about, happily received incoming mail, it was only on the xxx@btinternet.com that it failed! ]
Now, a tad more background - way back around 2012/14 I recall receiving a number of messages from BT saying that I (well, everyone in the same boat) would be transitioned to a BT Mail account. As far as I can see - well - yes - it can't be Yahoo any more, but I have never to this day been able to see it within webmail. Following the arrival of BT Mail, I DID create a new BT mail address, call it bill.xxx@btinternet.com - now this one is clearly accessible via web mail (and of course TB client)
The truth of the matter is that the original xxx@btinternet.com is largely irrelevant by now, but it does contain messages going back to mid 2012 - which contain interesting accounts of my contracting work in the later years of my active employment, and now being 71 and retired, I had hoped to revisit them - well yes, I should have archived them before now (as I did with all earlier stuff!)
Now with the knowledge of what's going on in TB (and other clients) I've tried repeatedly over the last day to specifically force TB to read the Inbox, with no success - while all other 5 attached accounts work fine (well, TB does get in the way as it occasionally dives off to try to access all accounts' inboxes in turn)
It also appears (from Chrome as it happens) that several passwords "have been compromised" - well, oddly enough, yes, they are all members of the original xxx.btinternet.com mail account - BUT - I don't believe that is anything directly to do with BT - back in the day, you'ld put together a quick, simple website for a local B&B or small business, and (stupidly now, but never thought about back then) - yup, like so many early-days site implementers, yep, posted right at the foot of the page were "contact details" i.e. the xxx.btinternet.com address - ha! - so I'm not surprised it has "leaked"
Anyway, as I say, I'm keen to restore access to the original, just to archive what I want, and then I'll happily delete it.
I know, a bit TL:DR there, but any thoughts at all are appreciated - I'm kind of reluctant to even attempt to change the password, but, well, maybe worth a try....
Thanks in advance,
Bill
