Default email account

dalegilbert — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:54:43 GMT

Is anyone else unable to log onto their default email account? I’ve tried through client app and webmail without success.

Re: Default email account

jab1 — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:59:31 GMT

Which ISP or vISP are you using for your mail - Plusnet or one of the various brands bought out by them (Metronet, etc)?

Re: Default email account

dalegilbert — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 12:08:40 GMT

Force9

Re: Default email account

jab1 — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 12:12:40 GMT

OK. I have seen rumours on here that the migration of some accounts - usually the 'old' ones such as yours - to Greenby has restarted, sometimes with issues.

@plusnettony is this one for you?

Re: Default email account

Townman — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 12:17:04 GMT

Logging on to a Force9 default account using either the email address or account name works fine.

Try running the email server connection diagnostics - link below. If that fails, then look elsewhere for the issue...

Reset email password

If you are not able to login to the email address using webmail, then it is likely that your email address has been identified as being compromised and has had its password changed. Where email address passwords have been changed to protect the integrity of the service, the Plusnet account password is left unchanged.

Which ISP are you with, Plusnet or one of the other / legacy vISPs?

Plusnet / Force9 / FreeOnline users can only change the password on the DEFAULT email address by changing the password on the user ACCOUNT through the user portal. You can change the password on a secondary mailbox using the Manage My Mail options in the user portal.

Brightview users (Madasafish / FreeNetName / GlobalNet / IC24 / ICScotland / Dialstart / Totalise) logging into webmail should use their full email address. Use the MAAF user portal to update the password on the default email address (change the account password) and use this MAAF guide to change the password on a secondary mailbox address. If you cannot recall the account password, you will need to contact support ... because the account password change process sends an email to the mailbox you cannot now access.

DO NOT USE THE SAME PASSWORD AGAIN for that would allow the continued exploitation of the account. The new password should be cryptic and not one used before.

Note that changing the account password will change the password used for logging on to the relevant user portal. If your email service is NOT a retained legacy service (one associated with a retired internet service account), then the password required by the router to connect to the internet will be changed too. If the router is a Hub Zero or a Hub One supplied by Plusnet it should update automatically. If not, you will need to log into the router, drop the connection, change the password yourself and reconnect.

On the assumption that the email address password has been compromised, I strongly recommend that wherever you have used that email address / password combination as access credentials to services such as Amazon, Netflix, eBay etc., that you also change the passwords on those service as well.

Re: Default email account

Townman — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 12:18:38 GMT

@jab1 wrote:

OK. I have seen rumours on here that the migration of some accounts - usually the 'old' ones such as yours - to Greenby has restarted, sometimes with issues.

@plusnettony is this one for you?

Not yet for Force9.

Re: Default email account

jab1 — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 12:23:45 GMT

Thanks, @Townman . T'was just a thought, as I obviously don't know. 😀

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