"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in
message news:hj4ov3hshm2u25di1id38h8g2qpui06fg4@4ax.com...
> 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.
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I tried using OE from my brother's computer to access my e-mail
and my/our (common) ISP refused to allow this no matter how I
configured his OE. I believe that it was a matter of security
and billing. With web mail and a proper password, it was okay
while using a web browser. That was the main point of my
experience.
-
Doug W.
-

>
>
>> "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.
>> >> >
>> >
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