I'm a PC support tech
This maybe an obvious one but it's something I've never understood how it works.
If you have created a Microsoft account with for example Joe.Bloggs@talktalk.net
That is now Microsoft email address. You can log in to email from the Microsoft account webpage with that and send/receive emails!
Yet Joe.Bloggs@talktalk.net also has an email address with TalkTalk and can log in to email with that on his TalkTalk webpage and send/receive emails!.
So how does the 'email world' determine which email server/inbox to send the emails to? I'm guessing it something to do with MX records and the actual addressing of the email headers.
It gets even more confusing when Joe.Bloggs@talktalk.net is logging into a nice new shiny Win 10 PC/Laptop as the first thing Microsoft get you to do is signing with a Microsoft account!
Then a password change occurs and they loose access to their email as what they are actually doing is logging into the PC with the Microsoft account but the email/client is the TalkTalk one. And they get confused as to which password they have changed!
I always try to avoid setting Win 10 up like that scenario above and always create a @Hotmail or @outlook account for my clients
Any insight to this would be appreciated
Steve
This maybe an obvious one but it's something I've never understood how it works.
If you have created a Microsoft account with for example Joe.Bloggs@talktalk.net
That is now Microsoft email address. You can log in to email from the Microsoft account webpage with that and send/receive emails!
Yet Joe.Bloggs@talktalk.net also has an email address with TalkTalk and can log in to email with that on his TalkTalk webpage and send/receive emails!.
So how does the 'email world' determine which email server/inbox to send the emails to? I'm guessing it something to do with MX records and the actual addressing of the email headers.
It gets even more confusing when Joe.Bloggs@talktalk.net is logging into a nice new shiny Win 10 PC/Laptop as the first thing Microsoft get you to do is signing with a Microsoft account!
Then a password change occurs and they loose access to their email as what they are actually doing is logging into the PC with the Microsoft account but the email/client is the TalkTalk one. And they get confused as to which password they have changed!
I always try to avoid setting Win 10 up like that scenario above and always create a @Hotmail or @outlook account for my clients
Any insight to this would be appreciated
Steve