Hi Garry, My name is Ron and I'll try to help you with this problem-
To set up your TalkTalk email on your iPad, follow these steps:
Unlock your iPad, and make sure that your Wi-Fi connection is off.
Touch Settings and then Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
Touch Add Account under the Accounts heading and then touch Other.
Next, touch Add Mail Account under the Mail section.
Enter your name, TalkTalk email address, password for that email address and a description into their respective boxes.
Touch Save and wait for the process to complete. Then touch Next.
If you receive an SMTP account verification failed message, touch OK.
Touch Save and wait for the verification process to complete.
Touch No to the Cannot Connect Using SSL message.
Touch Save and Save again.
On the Accounts screen, touch your TalkTalk account. Then scroll to Outgoing Mail Server and touch SMTP.
Select the smtp server for your iPad network provider.
Note: If your provider is not in the list you will need to add it. To find out how to do this, contact your iPad network provider.
Touch SMTP and select Primary Server. Then slide Server to OFF and touch SMTP.
Locate your iPad network account and tap it once. Ensure Server is set to ON.
Touch SMTP in the top left-hand corner.
Touch the account name in the top left-hand corner.
Ensure that your iPad network account is set as the Outgoing Mail Server.
Touch Mail name in the top left-hand corner and then exit from your settings.
Your iPad is now set up to send and receive your TalkTalk emails.
Please choose the options below that best fit your particular scenario:
TalkTalk
Login u**e@talktalk.net
Incoming email (POP3) mail.talktalk.net
Outgoing email (SMTP) smtp.talktalk.net
FTP server ftp://www.yoursitename.talktalk.net
Webspace address http://www.yoursitename.talktalk.net
Tiscali
Login u**e@tiscali.co.uk
Incoming email (POP3) pop.tiscali.co.uk
Outgoing email (SMTP) smtp.tiscali.co.uk
FTP server ftp.myweb.tiscali.co.uk
Webspace address http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/directoryname
Let me know if this rectifies your problem, and Thanks for using ExpertHelp™!