Bloody stupid Tesco.net!

[Cobra]

For years I've had Tesco as my IP. (from the days of dial up)
With that came a lot of email addresses.

Slowly I have over the last couple of years been deleting them in favour of Gmail accounts,
because of below.

I have always used "Outlook" (or outlook express in the early days),
as a pop3 mail client as I prefer to read them that way.

More and more I am getting "Synchronising sub-folders for a given tesco.net email address.
and outlook "hangs".

If I click on the particular email address outlook goes into "not responding" mode.
WTF? is this a conspiracy?

Reading Tesco help section it seems that its "possible" that particular account has "heavy traffic" and could be sending spam.

The email address's are quite lightly used, If I go off line and check the sent folder, there is nothing untoward in there.

I've tried emailing the Tesco help line, and get no response.
I'm not phoning them on a premium number just to bitch at them at my expense.

I hope you are reading this Tesco.
Because to say that I am getting more and more p***ed off with you in an understatement.

th'th'th' That's all folks.

 

[Sharky]

If I click on the particular email address outlook goes into "not responding" mode.
WTF? is this a conspiracy?

More and more I am getting "Synchronising sub-folders for a given tesco.net email address.
and outlook "hangs".

I'm guessing you don't want a serious reply but...

If you're sync'ing folders in the cloud then it isn't pop3 but imap. Pop3 you download content to your machine e.g. your .PST file, imap you sync folders with the cloud server.

 

[Neil B]

Remember "Every little helps"

 

[Cobra]

I'm guessing you don't want a serious reply but...

If you're sync'ing folders in the cloud then it isn't pop3 but imap. Pop3 you download content to your machine e.g. your .PST file, imap you sync folders with the cloud server.

Well you have totally lost me now, but when setting up the initial accounts it was always pop3. Nowadays
Outlook does it automatically, which is just as well really.
Isn't Gmail IMAP?

 

[Cobra]

Remember "Every little helps"

Really really helpful Cheers Neil

 

[onomatopoeia]

Isn't Gmail IMAP?

You can collect your email with either pop3 or imap on gmail (or via their web interface, of course), from memory.

You won't be "synchronizing folders" using pop3 though.

 

[onomatopoeia]

I've tried emailing the Tesco help line, and get no response.

If your mail client dies when fetching mail, this could be the reason you haven't seen a response!

 

[Cobra]

You won't be "synchronizing folders" using pop3 though.

See that's the bit I don't get?
Why would it synchronise folders on pop3 account.
Which I'm damned sure thats how it was set up.
And is there any point to / can I stop it doing that?

 

[Cobra]

If your mail client dies when fetching mail, this could be the reason you haven't seen a response!

I used a Gmail account, to send the enquiry and got an automated response from them.
So thats all good
It only dies when I click on the offending Tesco.net folder all the others work fine

 

[Sharky]

Well you have totally lost me now, but when setting up the initial accounts it was always pop3. Nowadays
Outlook does it automatically, which is just as well really.
Isn't Gmail IMAP?

Yep Gmail is imap, they want you to be in the cloud so they can scan your content for their ads (its in their T&Cs). Although old skool accounts (e.g. Freeserve, Demon, Pipex) were generally labelled as pop3 you usually had the option of both. Quick test would be open up the account in Outlook setting and check. On the link below the last image shows an Outlook 2007 image (but similar in 2010, 2013) showing an account in imap:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/staff/mail/pop-imap/outlook

 

[Cobra]

Yep Gmail is imap, they want you to be in the cloud so they can scan your content for their ads (its in their T&Cs). Although old skool accounts (e.g. Freeserve, Demon, Pipex) were generally labelled as pop3 you usually had the option of both. Quick test would be open up the account in Outlook setting and check. On the link below the last image shows an Outlook 2007 image (but similar in 2010, 2013) showing an account in imap:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/staff/mail/pop-imap/outlook

Thanks for that, yep tesco is now imap / smtp

 

[Sharky]

Thanks for that, yep tesco is now imap / smtp

It's been that way since the account was setup on your Outlook

Might be a good time to plan on getting all of your content locally and backed up then opt to moving to pop3 if you're having issues. Better to have time now and plan for it than it all go south and you ended up fire fighting the issue or losing your data.

 

[Cobra]

And no way to change it to pop either

Curiously, I wonder if Tesco did actually read this, hell of a coincidence if not,
Just had an email back, telling me its been locked, (?!) but as I provided to answer to the security question,
they have now reset it.

I went in and there was only minimal emails there, and no spam sent or received.

 

[Cobra]

It's been that way since the account was setup on your Outlook

Great

Might be a good time to plan on getting all of your content locally and backed up then opt to moving to pop3 if you're having issues. Better to have time now and plan for it than it all go south and you ended up fire fighting the issue or losing your data.

Thanks for your help

 

[Sharky]

And no way to change it to pop either

You can't change on the fly. You'd have to get your content down locally and make sure it was safe then delete your account within Outlook, then recreate the Outlook account this time selecting pop3.

If you do any of the above just make sure 100% you have your data in its entirety before removing the account.

 

[Cobra]

You can't change on the fly. You'd have to get your content down locally and make sure it was safe then delete your account within Outlook, then recreate the Outlook account this time selecting pop3.

If you do any of the above just make sure 100% you have your data in its entirety before removing the account.

Gotcha! Nice one, thanks again

 

[onomatopoeia]

Although old skool accounts (e.g. Freeserve, Demon, Pipex) were generally labelled as pop3 you usually had the option of both.

In the early days, Demon used to send you your email by SMTP when you dialled in as they didn't have a POP3 server. I used to have a piece of email software for DOS that acted as an SMTP listener.

Gmail has a pop3 server for people that want to download into outlook rather than leaving their mail "in the cloud".

 

[Cobra]

In the early days, Demon used to send you your email by SMTP when you dialled in as they didn't have a POP3 server. I used to have a piece of email software for DOS that acted as an SMTP listener.

Gmail has a pop3 server for people that want to download into outlook rather than leaving their mail "in the cloud".

Thanks for that
Although gmail have never been a problem, just bloody tesco.
Hence slowly swapping over and dropping the tesco.net ones.

Although its tempting to swap to pop3 for gmail as I didn't realise the bit about scanning for ads

 

[Peter B]

I've got one of my original email accounts from the early XP days and can access it on my Vista laptop or via www.Mail2web.com from any computer. It won't let me reply or forward anything, but most of it is retail stuff that doesn't take replies anyway.

 

[Cobra]

On questioning the fact as to why the email account had been blocked, I got this reply from the support team.


Dear Mr. X


Thank you for your reply, your case number is 161***

Sometimes an account is locked if there is any spamming activity.
However, the majority of the time, it's just suspended as a precaution,
which I can see was the case for your Tesco email account, therefore you have nothing to worry about as it was not compromised.

If you need any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Best wishes,

 

[Gremlin]

I have IMAP turned off on all my mail accounts, can't stand it.
I use outlook which is part of Microsoft Office and import all my mails into it.
When I used IMAP as soon as I deleted stuff from the online account it went from
the account on the PC and I lost the emails.
Plus all my contacts were put onto the gmail account and when my account was hacked they all got emails supposedly from me.
I don't send mails except through outlook so don't need an online address book