Can I check my email from both home and work?

You can set up Outlook Express to save a copy of your email on the mail server.  This way if you check you email from work or another computer you may have, it will keep a copy of this email on the service so you can view it at another computer.

To do this, click on Tools, Accounts and click on the Mail tab.  Select the email account(s) you wish to set up like this, and click on Properties.  Once the Properties box comes up, click on the Advanced tab.

Put a check in "Leave a copy of messages on server".  You may want to set it up to remove from the mail server after a few days.  This way the email space you are allowed on mail server does not fill-up.  You can also have one computer setup to save the mail on the server and another that will just go ahead and download it.  Example: You can have your work computer save a copy on the server, then you can have your home computer set up where it will just pull and download the email off the server.  This way you do not use up your storage space on the mail server.

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