Outlook Express ?

[Spinach]

When using Outlook Express, is there a setting that allows me to be able to read my email from more than one computer? If I read a new message on my home or work computer, I can not see that message on the other computer, same account and settings on both computers.

There has to be a simple setting that allows me to view all my messages from both computers?

[Ryan]

You just have to tell it to leave a copy of messages on the server on the advanced tab of you mail account settings.? Make sure you tell it to delete them after a couple of days or your will run out of space with your account.

[Mayfly]

I have never used Outlook Express. Is there an advantage to using it?

Thanks

[Ryan]

What are you comparing it to?  Outlook is a lot better, but it is not free and already on your computer like Outlook Express is.

[Mayfly]

I'm comparing it to all my e-mail accounts. For Outdoors Weekly I have all my mail auto forwarded to my gmail account. Is there an advantage to using outlook rather than my gmail?

I also use yahoo. that is my personal e-mail for friends. Is there an advantage to setting that up to outlook?

[Spinach]

I'm comparing it to all my e-mail accounts. For Outdoors Weekly I have all my mail auto forwarded to my gmail account. Is there an advantage to using outlook rather than my gmail?

I also use yahoo. that is my personal e-mail for friends. Is there an advantage to setting that up to outlook?

Abviously not! I'll probably end up forwarding all my emails to my Comcast account.

[JohnWester]

the advantage of outlook express or outlook is that you can have one email application for all your accounts.  You can set up multiple ones.  Then you just have one place to go instead of logging in to a bunch of diferent places.

[Mayfly]

the advantage of outlook express or outlook is that you can have one email application for all your accounts.? You can set up multiple ones.? Then you just have one place to go instead of logging in to a bunch of diferent places.

But what if I want to send someone something from a particular address?

[JohnWester]

you set up a default account that everything you send comes from, but when you want to change who it's from, in the started email, there is an options tab that you can select what account to send from.

[Mayfly]

What is the storage like in Outlook? I like the idea of unlimited storage in my gmail account.

[Spinach]

But does this solve my original problem of not being able to read an allready read message from a different computer?

[Ryan]

Look at my first response.  Go to tools > accounts then highlight your mail account and select properties.  Go to the advanced tab and at the bottom there is an option to leave a copy of messages on the server.  That way when you download them on one computer there is still a copy on the server so you can also download them on your other computer.

[Ryan]

What is the storage like in Outlook? I like the idea of unlimited storage in my gmail account.

An outlook .pst file should only be about 2GB, but you can store your mail in multiple files so you can have as much as your hard drive can hold.

[Realtree]

Ryan or Big Fish Guy,

I am having trouble trying to set up my mnoutdoorsman.com email address that Spinach sent me in my Outlook Express.

I HAVE been able to get it set up so that if i send an email in from another address to outdoorsrealtree@mnoutdoorsman.com I can pull those in and read them. Bue, I can not forward or send any new emails OUT from outdoorsrealtree@mnoutdoorsman.com.

I followed the instructions that Spinach had posted in the email and passwords thread, but I still can't get the OUTGOING mail side to acknowledge this email address. Any suggestions?

Outdoors_Realtree

[Realtree]

This is the error message that I am getting when i try to send outbound email:

The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'MNO', Server: 'mail.mnoutdoorsman.com', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10060, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E

[Ryan]

You probably have to go into your account settings and check the box that says my SMTP server requires authentication.

[Realtree]

I did this too. It asks me for my account name and password, but will not connect back to site to send mail out.

I don't know what to do to get this to work. Does anyone know anything that might help or why it is not able to send outgoing messages.

Thanks
Realtree