email retrieval from outlook 2007 while out of office

[whiteout853]

Is there anyway to retrieve my email from outlook 2007? I tried webmail but
they don't accept outlook. I tried hotmail and they don't seem to work
either. I have heard that you can get gmail to work with it but not sure
how. Any suggestions if you don't have microsoft exchange?

 

[F.H. Muffman]

Is there anyway to retrieve my email from outlook 2007? I tried

webmail but they don't accept outlook. I tried hotmail and they don't
seem to work either. I have heard that you can get gmail to work with
it but not sure how. Any suggestions if you don't have microsoft
exchange?

It really depends on what type of mail server you have and what options they
give you.

Outlook 2007 is just a mail client, you don't retrieve mail from it.

Does your email provider give you a web mail access to see your mailbox?
If it does, make sure you tell Outlook to leave a copy of the mail on the
server.

 

[DL]

Explain exactly what you mean, or what you are trying to do or achieve.
Outlook 2007 is a mail handler, it downloads mail from your ISP Mail
account, and stores it within Outlook, on your PC

 

[DL]

Oops, I see you put your requirement in the subject line
No you cannot retrieve the mail stored in Outlook

Depends on the type of mail account, eg pop mail or?
If you are using Pop mail, ammend the Outlook mail account to leave a copy
on the server for xx days.
You can then use web access to login to your ISP Mail and view mail.NB if
you send mail from your web interface a copy will not be available to
outlook, unless you cc the mail to yourself

However if your ISP supports IMAP that might be a better way

 

[whiteout853]

Thank you for your response. I am pretty computer illiterate so forgive me
if what I ask seems stupid. I used to have POP3 mail but found I could not
access my email from other computers, just my own, so a friend changed it for
me to IMAP. Now I can access my emails from my other home computers, however
now Outlook won't erase the deleted emails, it just struck a line through
them. I think I have to set the configuration to purge them.

My friend says that if I go online and go to my website, I can access my
e-mail through the c-panel. Is that what you are talking about when you say
I can use web access and log in to my ISP mail and view it? That seems to me
a long way to go about it. There seems to be the added disadvantage that if
I send mail out from this point, it will not send the email to my outlook in
box unless I copy myself. Am I understanding this correctly?

I guess what I am trying to do is connect to a free 3rd party web/mail
server like webmail (not a subscriber based Outlook Web Access (OWA) Exchange
email like mail2web.com or pay for the Microsfot Exchange Email Server) that
I can access anywhere and anytime. I just have the email server provided by
my website hosting service.

The guy at my hosting service says that to use webmail, you need only to
direct your browser to yourdomainname/webmail, but I don't think webmail
supports Outlook 2007. I quote from Webmail "The Webmail extension integrates
web site based email accounts in to Mozilla Thurderbird and allows
Thunderbird to download and emails using the web site. Currently only Yahoo,
Hotmail, MailDotCom, Gmail, Libero, and AOL domains are supported." So, I
don't think that Webmail supports Outlook 2007.

You say there is a better way to do this through IMAP. Any suggestions would
be appreciated. As a last resort I did find a post on www.groovypost.com on
how to use Outlook 2007 with GMAIL account via IMAP and that may be what I do
instead of using webmail. Thanks

 

[DL]

I assume you want to access your mail when travelling.
Your ISP (Internet Service Providor) will doubtless provide access to your
mail via web access simply log on there
Visit your ISP web site and look for the option to access your mail

Or if your mail is provided by your website hosting service, go their web
site and look for the option to access your mail - 'logon to web mail'

Or invest in a mobile phone that provides mail access, eg a Blackberry

The free services you are talking about are simply web based services that
access your mail as above, you dont need such, you can access your mail, the
same way, as above
Its nothing to do with Outlook, outlook is just a means of accessing mail on
a PC, ie its a mail handler, just like Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Windows
Mail etc
Yahoo, Hotmail, GMail and the like are all web based services
Think of your mail stored in Outlook on your PC the same way as your Word
Docs on your PC, you cannot access your Docs from somewhere else. But with
IMAP your mail can be accessed via the web when you logon to your mail
providers site