email settings?

[ash_scotland88]

I don't know if maybe Virgin Media has changed settings but I have my email set up across three devices.

Desktop,
Phone
Tablet

Receiving emails I get them across all devices, but sending them I can only access them from the device I sent from. I'm pretty confident up untill recently this wasn't the case.
Also recently outlook appears to be favouring searching emails from 2015-2014 (yeah I know I should probably just delete old ones)

Any idea what the issue could be? Or know what settins I should be running?

email address is an old blueyonder one.

 

[MarcLister]

Are you using POP or IMAP?

 

[ash_scotland88]

IMAP

 

[MarcLister]

On all three devices? Have you tried refreshing the account on each device to see if that synchronises the emails?

 

[ash_scotland88]

Yeah I have, I think the main issue is with my phone and sent emails from that not showing up elsewhere.

 

[Broken Hope]

If sent emails aren't linked on all devices then it's likely one or more aren't actually set up as IMAP, I'd double check.

 

[ash_scotland88]

The only option I can see for outgoing is smtp.

 

[Broken Hope]

If you have IMAP set up properly on all 3 devices then you should have access to all the same mailboxes for the simple reason that the mailboxes will be stored on server and not be on your actual device.

 

[ash_scotland88]

I think I may have got to the bottom of this, my desktop account name had a (1) at the end of it.

Removing this may have sorted it.

 

[flowrider99]

I have found that whilst VM will sync all incoming email across your folders it doesn't sync any sent emails. So an email sent on one device doesn't appear on any other device.

 

[jpaul]

How about bcc'ing yourself automatically on all sent mails, I have found at work+home
this also helps with respect to searching/reviewing threads