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How do I read my OE 6 e-mails from home?

Oct 16, 2005 7:27AM PDT

Dear friends,

I looked through the old posts because I'm sure I'm not the first person who has attempted this, but I didn't find anything exactly like my situation. If another member has asked an identical question, please direct me to that post.

I'm going to be out of the office for a couple weeks and want to check my e-mail from home. I only want to check NEW e-mails so I don't want to import the whole account including folders, old e-mails, etc. So we're not talking about a backup/restore situation. If new e-mails are not on my work computer when I return, that's OK. It would be nice, although not necessary, to have my address book. I have saved my address book as a .csv file, so I know how to do that.

Both computers use OE6 although at work I have Windows XP and at home I use ME. The other difference is that at work we have a broadband Internet connection and at home I use dial-up with Juno.

I am the only one who uses my computer at work and there are no identities or profiles. To check e-mail I simply open OE and it downloads, I don't need to type in a user ID or password. Also, my OE account resides on my computer, not a server.

I could probably have a co-worker forward my work e-mail to my Juno account, but it seems like there ought to be a way to use OE from home.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dan

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Re: OE from home
Oct 16, 2005 8:18AM PDT

Dan,

If your work's ISP allows so, you can just define that account (user name, password, pop3-server and the like) in your OE and then you can download all the mail. It's all in your copy of OE at work.

If you set the account at home to not delete the mail on the server, it should stay there for retrieval from your work, I suppose. But you can always export important mail at home, and import it at work again. If you know what you're doing you can even copy a folder from here to there with all mails in it.

Just as you can export the address book, you should be able to import it.

Hope this helps.


Kees

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Have a read
Oct 16, 2005 8:58AM PDT

I am from Australia and I know most Internet Providers have within their "Home" page giving access to your Emails!
With Optus all I have to do when away is to bring up their Home Page and click on "Webmail" enter in my "User Name" and "Password" and view/open up and read my Emails. Appears you cannot compose and send emails from within Webmail? In which case I use my Hotmail A/c

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Accessing email from another computer
Oct 24, 2005 6:47PM PDT

You can establish a Yahoo account for free simply by signing up. They offer email accounts that you can access from anywhere as long as you can get to the Yahoo home page. In that account is the option to download email from another (your office account) email account to the Yahoo account. You have the option to just view the message leaving them on your POP server if you wish.

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copy your email info
Oct 24, 2005 7:31PM PDT

from your work acct:
OE
tools
accounts
properties
name/logon/email servers

and at home
OE
tools
accounts
mail
add
fill in the wizard with email server info from work


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Jonah is correct
Oct 28, 2005 4:58AM PDT

Dan you say that there are no identities or profiles on the computer at work and all you do is open up OE and the emails arrive.

But you ''do'' have an identity within OE, it is your account name and password. In your OE at work the program must be set up to;

1] Automaticaly logon to the POP email server, and,
2] Save your username and password and use that when you log on.

You need those details to transfer to your email software at home.

Generally, Internet Service Providers, (ISP's), allow other ISP's to logon to their POP mail servers and retrieve emails, as long as the right credentials have been given, ie username, password, and POP server names.

So, using just one email program, like OE, you can set up multiple accounts for different ISP's and download new emails from each account, whilst only logged on to one ISP.

I have 4 email accounts with 4 different ISP's, one broadband and three dialup, and I can access all my emails from each ISP through any of the other ISP POP servers.

What you cannot do is send an email from an account you are not logged onto, eg, if you are logged onto ISP ''A'', and get an email for your ISP ''B'' account, you cannot reply to or Forward that ISP ''B'' email through the ISP ''A'' account.

So, like Jonah says, all you have to do is write down the account details for your email account at work, (including SMTP server details even though you cannot send emails), and create a new account on your OE at home using those details.

When you click Send/Receive, you should receive all of your work emails at your home address.

There is one, small, caveat...........

Recently some ISP's have fallen out with each other, and refuse to allow other ISP's to handle their POP emails. I'm not sure if this is just in the USA or is elsewhere as well.

If your ISP either at home or work is one of those, then there is little you can do about it I'm afraid.

Good luck.

Mark

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mail2web
Oct 28, 2005 1:11AM PDT

why not use www.mail2web.com and retrieve your e-mails from anywhere? just insert your e-mail address and your password. for me, it works perfectly.
pesche

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Retreiving Email from Multiple Computers
Oct 28, 2005 8:40AM PDT

You can check your email on multiple computers, but there are a few things you must setup to make things work correctly.

This simple setup will allow you to easily check your mail at home and at work.

I'm assuming that eventually you'd like to have a copy of all of your email on the work computer.

Instructions for your work computer:

1) First we're going to setup your work computer to leave the messages on the server for 60 days, so they'll be available from other computers. It's important to have one of the computers delete the messages or eventually your mailbox will become full.
We're also going to export your email account settings so you can import it into OE at home.

Open Outlook Express.
Open the Tools Menu, then select "Accounts...".
Click on the Mail tab, then select the email account you wish to share.
Click the Properties button.

In the Properties Window go to the Advanced tab.

In the Delivery section at the bottom of the window, make sure there is a check mark next to "Leave a copy of messages on server".

Then put a check next to "Remove from server after ____ days" and set it to 60 days.

Press OK, which will bring you back to the Internet Accounts Page.

Now make sure the desired email account is selected and press "Export...".

Save the file, remembering where you saved it.

Copy the file to removable media (Floppy Disk, CD, or USB Flash drive) so that it can be copied to your home computer.

That's it for work.

Instructions for your home computer:

Open Outlook Express.
Open the Tools Menu and select "Accounts...".

In the "Internet Accounts" window click "Import..."

In the "Import Internet Acccount" window, open the file you saved at work.

In the "Internet Accounts" window, select your email account, and press "Properties".

In the Properties Window go to the Advanced tab.

In the Delivery section at the bottom of the window, REMOVE the checkmark next to "Remove from server after 60 days". This will ensure that your emails will be available when you return to work. (The messages will be removed 60 days after you check your mail from your work computer)

Press "OK".
Press "Close".

You can now check your mail safely from both work and home.

Radical