Reading email offline

Grannyma,

Just go into Outlook Express. Everything that's inside that folders is on your computer already, and you don't need a connection to the Internet to read it. That's your Inbox and Sent Items and all Outlook Folders you created yourself to put your email in by category or subject or sender of whatever system you use.

You only need to connect to Internet to receive new emails from others or send new messages you made to others. But not to read older ones.

I suppose you have a 'normal' pop3 email-account. Things are different if you connect to yahoo premium or hotmail or gmail. They keep your mail on their servers, so you need much more connection, unless (I suppose) you move messages to local folders for offline Access.

Hope this helps.


Kees

Once the message is in your inbox you should be able to read them offline. The only messages that you may have trouble with are ones that are in html format. Which means that they either contain links, or graphics that need to be downloaded from the net everytime you open the email, or the message itself is a webpage.

With the messages that contain attachments that you can't open is because you do not have the necessary programs installed on your computer to access these files. For example the '.dbx' extension is usually a database form of some type and you would need something like MS Excell to open it.