How do I get my email address from my work to my laptop and what is the website?

Question

I want to be able to access my email adress from work to my laptop

Answer 1

You need to have the POP settings, and the SMTP settings for you e-mail server. You then place them into Outlook Express, and you'll be able to receive your e-mails from work, on your latptop.

Answer 2

To be able to read your work email on your laptop, you'll need to have a mail client configured access your mail server at work. In order to access mail while traveling or from home, you will also need to have VPN software which your IT/IS department can provide (unless you work for a university or some organization without a firewall).

First, you'll need a mail client. Thunderbird is a good one, available for free from http://www.mozilla.org . You can also use Outlook or Outook Express if you don't mind viruses too much. Or, consult your IT/IS group; you may want to use the same software you use on your desktop.

Second, you'll need to determine which protocol to use. This would be either POP or IMAP. POP is the most common but it has a downside: Mail can only be read in one place, and it resides where you read it. For example, suppose you receive and read ten messages while at work on your desktop. You can go back the next day and read them again. If you go home or travel and read five messages via POP, these messages are stored on your laptop. You will be unable to read them from your desktop at work, and you will be unable to read the first ten messages on your laptop. Your mail becomes divided between two computers.

A better solution, if your IT/IS department supports it, is IMAP. This stores messages on a central server. You can read them from anywhere. Those five or ten messages can be read from either your desktop or laptop at any time. The downside? You cannot read messages unless you are connected to the network, unlike POP.

So determine which protocol IT/IS supports and you are going to use, and configure your mail client with the protocol and server information.

In general your IS/IT department should be able to help you with this problem.