Accessing Email

[Rick]

I use Vista and Windows Mail on my home PC. I use Windows Mail for all my
email. I want to access my email from other computers. I have tried
Tool/Accounts/My email acct/Properties/Advanced and putting a check next to
"leave a copy on the server" but I still can't get access on my ISP email
site. I have only tried to do it from my home PC, but shouldn't it work from
there?

 

[Bruce Hagen]

Who is your ISP? You should be able to go to their Webmail site and see
your messages from any computer.

 

[Gary VanderMolen \(MVP\)]

Some mail providers (notably Gmail) don't allow a second computer
to download messages without special settings. Who is your mail
provider?

The "Leave a copy on the server" setting must be enabled on both
computers.

 

[Rick]

I use Time Warner RoadRunner for my ISP. I did "leave a copy on your server"
on my home PC and today I tried to access my email at RoadRunner from a
friend's PC and no email showed up. Are you saying that whenever I want to
access my email at the RoadRunner site from another PC I need to go onto
that PC and do the "leave a copy on your server" on that PC?

Rick

 

[Sam Hobbs]

That is what Gary is saying, except you need to do it just before
downloading. Just think about it. It works the way the words imply.
Normally, people download their messages to their computer and they don't
want to download them again. That is what most people want to happen. If
that is not what you want, then you need to tell Windows Mail to not delete
the messages.

Sometimes people think they have a solution to a fundamental problem then
they ask for help with the solution. In this case, the fundamental problem
is how to use Windows Mail to access email from more than one computer; the
problem is accessing email from more than one computer. If you ask that
question, you would get better answers. The answer is to use the online
email page (sometimes called webmail). For socal RR it is
webmail.socal.rr.com, but I don't know where you are so I don't know the
exact address for you. When you are away from home, use webmail. That won't
solve the problem if you want to look at a received message when away from
home, but I think you have all the information you need to solve that
problem too.