Your Virgin Media Mail account is currently unavailable
This is either because your Virgin Media Mail account is locked, or because you don’t have an active account with us anymore. If you have an existing Virgin Media Mail account with us, please follow the steps below, as your account may have been locked as a security precaution.
Follow these steps unlock your Virgin Media Mail account
Step 1. Go to My Virgin Media : to create a new password for your My Virgin Media account. We need you to create a new password for this account as there may have been a security breach.
Select Sign In
Select Forgotten your email or password? under the password box
Follow the instructions to change your password
Step 2. Next, we need you to generate a new password to be used specifically for signing in to third-party mailbox apps (like Outlook or Gmail) to access your Virgin Media Mail emails. Even if you don’t use these apps to access your emails now, we still need you to reset the password anyway to fully secure your account.
Sign In to My Virgin Media
Go to Account settings, then Account details
Tap Manage next to Manage your Virgin Media Mail app password under Virgin Media Mail
Then, under Virgin Media Mail app password tap Get password
Continue the flow and a new secure password will be generated for you
Update any third-party apps that you use to access your Virgin Media Mail emails with this new app password
Please note that as this password is separate from your sign in details for My Virgin Media (or any Virgin Media apps) this won’t affect your My Virgin Media password. So, if you check your Virgin Media Mail emails through My Virgin Media or at mail.virginmedia.com, you'll still only need your My Virgin Media password.
Step 3. Once your password's reset, make sure your emails are not being forwarded without your knowledge.
Go to mail.virginmedia.com
Sign in with your username and password
Click on Menu (top right) and then, Settings
Expand the Email option
Select Auto Forward
This will show any email addresses set to receive forwarded emails from your Virgin Media mailbox. If it shows one you don’t recognise, select and delete the forwarding rule.
Virgin Media takes your security very seriously. That’s why we always want our customers to know what’s happening as soon as an issue is detected. It’s our policy to proactively advise customers of external security threats which may affect them in the ever-changing digital world.
For more help and support, see our Compromised Mailbox Alert.
Where can I get some tips on what to do if my email account is due to be closed?
If you choose to leave Virgin Media, it's important to remember that if you have a Virgin Media email account, it will be deactivated and deleted 90 days after your services have been disconnected as is outlined in our terms and conditions.
For more help and support visit our email account closure page.