How can I....?

[mycroft]

Hope you can help, Not been on this forum before but as there seems to be loads of I T bods on P H so here goes.I have (am in the process of) changed from BT to NTL for my 2 phone lines and want to keep checking my old email address for messages, my wife works from home and its important that we are able to access the old e mail address. Its been a poor service from NTL so far cos we wanted the phone No`s from BT changed over for the same reasons but that was messed up.we have a domain name that I understand that will mean that we will not need to change Email address in future if we change ISP again. So can I dial up BT and check my old email address from or via an NTL account.
Sorry if this is stupid question.
Dale

[rsvmilly]

You should be able to collect them fine. I collect my BT emails via my Nildram connection.

At the very least you could access them by webmail.

[arcturus]

You will be able to check your BT email whilst dialled in through NTL account.

I check all sorts of email by just dialling in to my regualar ISP.

[pdV6]

Sounds like BT's ok, but I seem to remember that a few of the dial-up ISPs wouldn't let you deal with your mail unless you were dialled-in from one of their lines (as that's how they made their money) - but as you say, webmail is always there if you can't do it any other way.

{edited for splign)

>> Edited by pdV6 on Thursday 23 September 15:18

[rsvmilly]

pdV6 said:

Sounds like BT's ok, but I seem to remember that a few of the dial-up ISPs wouldn't let you deal with your mail unless you were dialled-in from one of their lines (as that's how they made their money) - but as you say, webmail is always there if you can't do it any other way. {edited for splign) >> Edited by pdV6 on Thursday 23 September 15:18

I could collect my freeserve emails but I couldn't send anything via their SMTP server - I guess to stop relaying.

But I can't access my freeserve FTP unless I dial in with them.