Computer newbies forum: Can I access my Outlook e-mail from another computer?

Larry,

The answer depends on the kind of email account YOU have, not on what your friends grandmother has in Florida. Is it is a 'normal' pop3-account, or is it some web-based account like hotmail and gmail. So please tell more (but don't tell your email-address).

Kees

...to your Outlook.. First, Outlook was originally configured by your or by the Verizon software so it would "find" your Verizon address..Next, in order for it to be downloaded to your Outlook program, you must first open Outlook, and then you must press the "Send/Receive" button while on the internet, at which time it downloads to Outlook.

So at this time, at any other computer in the world, you can choose to access your Verizon mail in a couple of ways.(All have been described in the previous answers.) First point though... The mail that has already been downloaded to your home Outlook program, you will not be able to see.. It's no longer on the Verizon server and as such, if you need a particular message or group of messages from your Outlook program, you'll need to send those messages to yourself so they're placed on the server again making them available to you on your webmail.

Next, all future messages can be accessed by opening your webmail from the link as I described earlier or by configuring the mail program on your new computer (Outlook, Outlook Express, etc.) to download it. In fact, if you'd like to test it at your home computer, click on the webmail link I provided earlier and you should be able to see all mail that's on the server.

Does that now make sense.

Hope this helps.

Grif

I have been reading all of the responses regarding people asking about their email issues.

I am not an EXPERT by any stretch, but one thing I know... YA' HAVE TO MAKE SURE, when answering a question regarding email, that the little bugger you're answering to KNOWS what-in-the-heck email is!!!

WHAT IS THIS GUY TALKING ABOUT, you might ask?

Simple.

I do not have enough toes and fingers to count how many times I have had to explain that the SOFTWARE is NOT the email PROVIDER! I have to ALWAYS make sure to first say something like, "You DO realise the your <insert email software name here> is NOT where your software GOES to when someone sends you an email, right? The program is only YOUR 'front-end' that FETCHES your email where it is waiting for you, which is at your ISP."

Of course, for Hot-mail, Yahoo, MSN and other such people, there would not be this conversation. I would just say something like, "Why are you concerned about this topic? This has NOTHING to do with what email software is on the OTHER person's system, and ya' don't have to even THINK about your ISP's website. You just GO to your web-based email account like you normally do. And it has NOTHING to do with HOW the person 'surfs' the web. NOW GO!"... lol

It is AMAZING what people go through regarding email. I have found the EASIEST way is to JUST USE THE ISP's email set-up.

No, let's NOT get into the lack-luster FILTERING that MOST ISPs have for us to try setting-up for the SPAM... ewwww.

By-the-way, Portable Thunderbird beats ALL other email software. hands down.

If it's a hotmail-account, you can access that via any browser. If it works at home in Internet Explorer `(easy to try) it will work everywhere. Try www.live.com or www.hotmail.com and see if it works.

Be sure your address book is online also, not on your PC.

Kees

As such, you should be able to access your email account using the webmail link.. Unfortunately, you haven't told us the provider of your account.. As just an example, users of Verizon DSL can access their mail by visiting the website below, then typing in the same username and password as their ISP's Outlook account requires..

http://webmail.verizon.net/signin/

Other internet service providers have similar websites for checking mail online.. Of course, you won't be able to actually open any mail that you've downloaded and saved to Outlook but new mail will show up and you can send and read the new stuff.

Hope this helps.

Grif

yes, you can.

in outlook you need to go into the account setting and set it up so that you can leave a copy of the message on the server. Then at your grandma's house you can either go online to get them, or set up outlook down there (remember that when u set it up down there you must choose to leavre a copy of the message on the server)

-Ron

I'm not sure somebody who doesn't have a portable usb flash drive would understand you, so let me expand a little: determine that the computer you'll be using has a usb port (preferably a newer usb 2.0, but since it won't say anywhere on the computer, cross your fingers if they don't know); buy a portable usb flash drive (even the small 215 mb ones will do for just email); plug in your drive at home and download to the drive ("dongle" is what they're commonly called) a copy of Mozilla Thunderbird from any of the numerous frees sites on the web (it's a linux version of Outlook that looks and works the same); in Thunderbird use the toolbar menu to import copies of all your old email from Outlook to Thunderbird, and now you're good to go. You can either just read your new mail from webmail (including, don't forget, at any local library's computers) and download it to your home computer later, keeping the dongle in case you need to refer to old mail, or you can configure the dongle to capture the new mail in Thunderbird and import it from Thunderbird to Outlook when you get back home.

If the usb device says it is "U3 compliant" that means you can download a small version of Thunderbird from the U3 website (U3 is a system that allows large programs to be reduced for use with flash drives).

You might also consider going au naturel in email terms and just logging in to web mail wherever you are and leaving the messages on the web server until you get home (if nobody will be sending you messages with confidential info about accounts).

An easy way is to leave your home computer connected and access via the GotoMycomputor program which you would install before leaving.

All I do is go to mail2web.com. Enter your email address and password you would enter for your isp. Works wherever you are.

Folks read the question.
The person asked can they read OUTLOOK email from a another PC. They didnt ask can you use other email programs to read email!

But the answer is sure you can, One way would be to set up a remote terminal server connection. Another maybe do use http://www.logmein.com way.....or.. basically what is the person asking. Easiest way might be to just set up "Mail Relayer" see http://www.mailrelayer.com/index.html

P.S if your grandmother is still on dial up..tell here to spend another 5 bucks a month or so and jump to DSL or AOL Broadband. She be spoiled by the speed and things will work much better for her.

This post was not good for me because i have done this but my problem has not been solved.