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clicking try again takes me hereHi, this is my first post. I have my own BT account, and have also taken over my deceased mothers account. I have tried to gift HER email address to MY account today in advance of selling her house and cutting off her account. I have successfully gifted her email address from within her account, and received the activation email in my own. But when I try to activate the email it takes me to a page requesting a BT ID. I fill in my own BT ID at the bottom of the page and after clicking continue a message comes up saying it has timed out. This has happened several times. I have logged out and back in, and even tried on another device, and it still times out. I am not being slow. It offers the the option to "try again" but that takes me to a new page which wants me to create a new BT ID. I don't want a new one, just to add my mums emails to my own account so that I can deal with final bills after we cut off her broadband. I have also tried to import from within my own account but this won't work either. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Sorry, I realise this is in the wrong board....couldn't see a board related to emails when I first posted.
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You do not "gift" the email. If you do it will still belong to your mother's account and will be downgraded when you close her account.
You need to follow this procedure?
Thanks. The instructions you link to are on how to import an email. I tried that first, importing into my personal account, but part way through the procedure it told me that the other person (my mum's account) first had to "gift" the email to me.
So that's when I started the whole gifting palaver. Her email has now actually appeared in my personal account [ I've no idea how] but is in a box that says I have gifted it to friends and family!! Her account is now not showing any emails at all in the "my products" section.
I suspect I have messed everything up. I can still log into her email with her password via webmail.
You will still be able to regardless of ownership. Once your mother's account is closed the address will automatically be downgraded to Basic Mail which is only accessible via webmail.
Thank you for that reassurance!
If the email account is now in your Family and Friends section I would say that you have successfully transferred it to your BT Broadband account and it has now become one of your eleven permitted email accounts.
Apologies for speaking as though she is still alive but it makes it easier to explain.
As per the link I posted you are advised to "gift" it to the person whose email it "was" (your mother) so that they can keep control of the email account and be responsible for its security and to be able change the password because during the process you would now know what the password is ( I know you already knew it but you might not have).
It would appear that this has already been done because the email account is in your Friends and Family and missing from her MyBT email section.
Because your mother already has a BTID which was linked to another BT Broadband account which is now going to be closed, it would require her to accept the email account and set up a new BTID as per the "gifting" process. It would still remain in your BT Broadband account but the security etc would now be her responsibility.
You would then only be able to access it through her new BTID and new MyBT.
As the email account is no longer in her "old" MyBT I suspect it is waiting to be accepted by her with her new BTID.
The acceptance email should be in her Inbox although if it is not there check in the Spam folder.
The username (presumably her email address) and her password would remain the same until she (you) changes the password via her new MyBT.
The link I posted does explain the above if you follow all the sub links.
Thanks. I think that makes sense. So if “she” does nothing, ie: doesn’t accept the email being gifted back to her, when I close her account I will still have access to her emails as I know the password? There are no emails for her asking her to accept the gifted email, but there are links in MY friends and family box for her to do that. If possible I’d like to just ignore them in case I mess it up. As long as I will have access to her email for a few weeks after her account closes, that’s all I need. I suspect I have overcomplicated matters.
Yes, as has already been pointed out, you will still have access to the email account in the same way as you do now.
The email account should be a "Standard" email account as it is showing in your MyBT as one of your eleven possible email accounts and is now "owned" by you.
In a worst case scenario, which I don't think will happen, is that it gets downgraded to a "Basic" email account but even if that was the case you will still have access to it as you do now.