IVUMail and ivu-mail-lists How to read your email while away from home

The easiest answer to this one is to use IVUMail - web-based email that you can read anywhere. If you need to use other sources then continue.... Some ISPs (Internet Service Providers) provide full or partial remote access to your email account. Some of these just have 'read/delete' options but not 'reply' or 'post' which might be sufficient, depending on your personal needs. These could be either by using a web page or an email program. Check with your own provider, either on their website or by phoning their technical support, before proceeding. Also check: Ensure you have a POP (Post Office Protocol) account with your ISP - not just SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) Some ISPs require you to set up a separate password for remote use of POP mail, other than your usual password All of this can vary quite a lot so it's worth checking with your ISP as they may have some options which meet your needs. You can get full email options via the web by using Hotmail, courtesy of Microsoft. If you want to try that: Go to - Hotmail - and follow the instructions to give yourself a user ID and password. Set it to enable your POP account. There is a box to to 'leave copies on the server' or 'remove from the server' - you need to decide whether you will still want to download your mail when you get home - if you don't check that box it will be deleted from your server and only available in future via hotmail. Your mail from your own ISP should appear next time you go into your Hotmail account from any Internet terminal, anywhere in the world. You can invite people to send mail direct to your Hotmail address, but you will not be able to read that any other way than via Hotmail. Some comments from users: One of the problems of using Hotmail from cybercafes and friends' computers is what to do, when you get home, with the large amount of mail that you didn't deal with while travelling. The latest version of Outlook Express has solved this problem by integrating with Hotmail. For this reason I have abandoned my long time devotion to Eudora. - John Wedderburn, Hong Kong I have found that most cybercafes also have programs like Eudora installed on their machines. You can just configure these with your POP information as well and retrieve your e-mail just the same. I actually prefer this method as I can browse all the messages at once quickly rather than having to go through the slow hotmail web based interface and I get to use a real e-mail client. The down side with some ISPs is that although they allow you to pickup your mail remotely they will not always allow you to send remotely. - Kevin Pickard, Toronto