Hi Chris hope you can help. I have Talktalk (well tiscali) as my main email provider but have always used the proper MS Outlook (the one that comes with paid for MS Office 2016 professional for home use) as the client to access it on my laptop. It has always been temperamental - failing to synchronise and if I close and re-open I regularly get a blue wheel and nothing happens and then randomly after 5 or 6 attempts it will open. I have a feeling that you posted something about this a few months back as a known issue and a potential solution. Do you remember?
It's very irritating although it works 90% of the time and has done so for several years. PS I know I can access my mail directly from the web but prefer not to. PPS we get our broadband from TT so also nothing to do with shutting off Tiscali accounts.
Thanks both - though I'm sure I saw Chris post some link just before I went away in Feb and thought must check that out later :-)
Wouldn't mind using something else but I'd want to see what it looked like first - its only because I use Outlook at work and know my way round it like the back of my hand so wanted the same experience at home - but yes it has never been that reliable.