Penguin68 Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 Just a heads-up that BT Mail has a major outage - although other BT Internet/ broadband provided services are working OK. It seems to be impacting across the country.https://downdetector.co.uk/status/bt-british-telecom/map/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DulwichFox Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 Yep.. My BT Mail is down. :(Foxy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin68 Posted September 5, 2019 Author Share Posted September 5, 2019 It appears that the problem is with BT's underlying mail service provider, Yahoo - and that other (non BT) services which also rely on Yahoo are impacted. BT talks about moving its service from the Yahoo platform, but never seems to get round to it, or not for a significant number of its customers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
singalto Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 My Sky email is also down.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bony Fido Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 Sky email is also provided via Yahoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EPB Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 My Virgin Media is fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin68 Posted September 5, 2019 Author Share Posted September 5, 2019 My Virgin Media is fine.As (I think) it's not on the Yahoo email platform that's not surprising. BT's underlying network infrastructure is fine - it's a (much used) 3rd party email platform which is at fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichH Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 Alas, the days of BT running their own email servers are long gone. My BT email service is provided by Microsoft (Office 365) which has been totally reliable. I'm not sure which BT packages/services you may need to get email provided by Microsoft, but it may be worth investigating if you're unhappy with Yahoo! email. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin68 Posted September 5, 2019 Author Share Posted September 5, 2019 BT chooses which platform your e-mail address(es) is/ are parented on. Mine is/ are on Yahoo (which was their default platform way-back when BT and Yahoo partnered - now e-mail is all that is left of that partnership). They were planning to migrate all their services away from Yahoo (and indeed have partly done so - my Yahoo (as opposed to BT Yahoo Mail) log-on now takes me back to BT screens - I can no longer log-on to the Yahoo news server). However although the service is now run by BT the platform it runs on is Yahoo's - and it is this platform which has failed. Office 365 (Outlook) is a mail handler (ap) but it takes its mail from the server platforms it is parented on.Edited to note that I have accessed one email sent this afternoon over my version of Outlook. So some things are coming through via the Microsoft ap, (and also via the native Mail ap on Windows 10). But I suspect only some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DulwichFox Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 BT Mail back up. Well mine is.. Foxy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianr Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 And Yahoo mail server has just delivered to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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