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Web account deleted - can't be reconnected to BT's backend system

Bit of a long story, so I will summarise

1. Rang BT to upgrade speed of my broadband from 150 to 500 service - as part of this was moved to EE - was told BT account would still be live to enable me to manage my 8 different email addresses
2. Could log into my account on BT.com but couldn't manage my email accounts
3. Rang BT and a helpful lady said she was going to delete the web account and recreate this as it would solve the problem
4. She did this and it didn't solve the problem so she sent it to tech support 
5. No response after 5 days so called BT again, this time a different call handler said that the First Lady shouldn't have deleted the web account as this was a huge error and it was unlikely that I would now be able to log into my BT account ever again - and therefore now cannot manage my email addresses.  Again sent to tech support
6. As of 5 days later still no update and cannot log into BT.com

Has anyone had anything similar or has any suggestions?

My issue now is when I call I get routed to EE as I have no BT account !

I feel hugely miffed as I didn't ask to move to EE (I only wanted my speed increased) and I didn't ask for my account to be deleted 

Please...... any ideas would be massively helpful

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Re: Web account deleted - can't be reconnected to BT's backend system

This is very simplified and is not necessarily factual but as far as I am aware when you move to EE your BTMail email accounts stay with BT however because you have moved to BT you are no longer a BT customer and as such your BT Broadband account which contained your BTMail accounts gets closed.

In order to  keep your BTMail and still to be able to manage it, you should have had a "new" BT account started by BT. This account does nothing other than to allow you to keep your email accounts and manage them using your existing BTID and MyBT. There is no charges on this account. If you were able to check it would show £00.00.

It would appear, as has previously happened to others, that the "new" BT account was not started and as such your email would not have been able to be managed. It is as far as I am aware it should have been simple to set you up with a new BT account.

Are you still able to access and use your email accounts by logging onto them using the Email log on page BTMail 

If you can still logon to the email accounts it means that they are still active and should be able to be recovered and added to a new BT account.

As regards managing them you can do that from within the email account by logging onto it and then clicking on the username at the top right hand side then selecting "Account Info". This gives you options such as changing your password.

If you can not log into your BTMail email accounts I suspect that the accounts should be able to be recovered but it will take the intervention of the BT email team because you have no access to your MyBT. 

If you have access to your MyBT you could recover a deleted email account for up to 60 days after deletion.

If you still have your old BT account number try using that when you call BT 0330.1234.150 or try holding on with out selecting an option and it may route you to a person.

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