I am new to outlook. if i set up outlook at home and on my lap top can i
access the same email accounts from both computers.

danman wrote:

> I am new to outlook. if i set up outlook at home and on my lap top can i
> access the same email accounts from both computers.

Depends on the TYPE of e-mail account. POP, IMAP, Exchange, HTTP, what?

VanguardLH wrote:
> danman wrote:
>
>> I am new to outlook. if i set up outlook at home and on my lap top can i
>> access the same email accounts from both computers.
>
> Depends on the TYPE of e-mail account. POP, IMAP, Exchange, HTTP, what?

If POP, make sure to tick the option to 'leave a copy of the messages on
the server'; do that before you start Outlook for the first time
(Control Panel | Mail).

i beleive the accounts are pop, imap. one of the accounts is yahoo and the
other is comcast.

"VanguardLH" wrote:

> danman wrote:
>
> > I am new to outlook. if i set up outlook at home and on my lap top can i
> > access the same email accounts from both computers.
>
> Depends on the TYPE of e-mail account. POP, IMAP, Exchange, HTTP, what?
>

danman wrote:

> "VanguardLH" wrote:
>>
>> danman wrote:
>>
>>> I am new to outlook. if i set up outlook at home and on my lap top
>>> can i access the same email accounts from both computers.
>>
>> Depends on the TYPE of e-mail account. POP, IMAP, Exchange, HTTP,
>> what?
>
> i beleive the accounts are pop, imap.

Okay, but WHICH? POP or IMAP?

> one of the accounts is yahoo and the other is comcast.

Don't know about Yahoo (thought they only had POP). Comcast only has
POP.

For POP, follow Pat's advice. That means your POP client will not do a
RETR/DELE (retrieve and delete) but just the RETR. Because the messages
are not getting deleted from the mail server, you'll have to do the
cleanup yourself (using the webmail interface) to ensure you don't eat
up all your disk quota with that account.