On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 18:13:28 -0600, "Doug W." <stand@attention> wrote:

> OOps, I wasn't referring to "web mail" I was referring to
> accessing POP mail from another computer away from home using
> "Outlook Express". You are right about 'web mail' and accessing
> via web browser, I guess I didn't read correctly and thought he
> wanted to use OE. Don't know
> what I was thinking. Sorry about that.


Fine, but you're still wrong. Outlook Express can access pop mail on
*any* computer it can run on. There is no problem with doing that with
XP Home Edition either.

Moreover, there's nothing special about Outlook Express. It's one of
many E-mail clients that can access pop E-mail. If he has access to a
computer that runs either Outlook Express or any of these other
pop-capable E-mail clients, he can easily do this. The operating
system, or even the hardware platform, doesn't matter.

The only potential issue he might run into is that if is using a
public computer (for example in a commercial E-mail cafe), they might
not want him to configure their E-mail client for his E-mail account.
But that's still an issue of their letting him or not, not a technical
issue.


> "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in
> message news:57qnv31sad26msfs8al6iquf21j5o58llo@4ax.com...
> > On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 14:57:39 -0600, "Doug W." <stand@attention>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Not with XP Home edition from what I have read.
> >
> >
> >
> > Sorry, but you've read wrong. It has nothing to do with XP
> > Home
> > edition. If your ISP has webmail capabilities, and you are at
> > any
> > computer with web access, you can do this, regardless of what
> > operating system it is running. It could be *any* version of
> > Windows,
> > Linux, Macintosh, or anything else. The operating system is
> > completely
> > irrelevant.
> >
> >
> >
> >> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP******.com> wrote in message
> >> news:O8lcspZmIHA.980@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> >> > Outlook Express is a Mail Client, not a mail server. You
> >> > should be able to access new messages (and any older
> >> > messages
> >> > not removed from the server) via your account's web-mail
> >> > page
> >> > while you're travelling.
> >> > --
> >> > OE-specific newsgroup:
> >> > news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...xpress.general
> >> >
> >> > ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> >> > MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience -
> >> > since
> >> > 2002
> >> >
> >> > adfazap wrote:
> >> >> Could you please advise if I am able to get my emails from
> >> >> another computer,
> >> >> we will be travelling soon and don't know how to retrieve
> >> >> emails outside my
> >> >> home.
> >> >
> >
> > --
> > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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