tom said:
I've set up a new email address on my laptop. I can access this from my work
PC to view the emails but when I try to view these emails that I have
received at work when I'm at home I get an error message saying that I need
to be online. I'd like to be able to use the email facilities from any
machine that I log on to. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
What thinks that your company has configured their e-mail servers to allow
for public access by anyone? They may not simply rely on login credentials
to protect their mailboxes, plus that would still mean having to waste
resources on hackers trying to access their mail server.
You need to find out from your IT folks at work as to whether or not they
permit external access to their mail server and, if so, how that access is
granted. They may, for example, require that you use a VPN to encrypt your
traffic while tunneling through the Internet to get into their network.
They may even require further validation by putting a special-use key on
your host which is required to authenticate that host to access their
corporate network. They may not permit simple (unprotected) or VPN
(protected) access to their network at all and instead require you to use
HTTPS to connect to their Outlook Web Access client (a web server front-end
to Exchange).
Ask your e-mail admin or IT folks at work as to if and how they permit
off-site access to your e-mail.
