How to access your mail from your home or office using Microsoft
Outlook Express and Eudora.
If
you have access to the Internet at home and at your office it
is possible to use the same DD email account, eliminating the
need for a different home and work email account.
You
must setup Outlook Express and Eudora at work and at home 'to
leave mail on the server'. This will mean that even when you
download your messages to read them, they will remain on the
server.
1.
To do this in Outlook start the program and go to the menu for
Tools. Under this you will find Accounts. This
will open the following box:
Click
on the following button:
This
will open another box:
Click
on the Advanced
button. At the bottom of the page will be a number of options.
Tick the box "Leave a copy of messages on server".
This will allow you to access your mail from another point.
You can then choose how long your mail remains on the server
or whether you wish it to be deleted at all. It is recommended
that you leave this unchecked.
The
final option is to "Remove message from the server when
deleted from 'Deleted Items'". This is only recommended
if you receive many 'junk' emails or you do not wish to read
everything at your home or office.
Then
Click OK. You will need to do this at both home and office copies
of Outlook to enable it to work at both. If you use one email
browser at work and a different one at home, you can still use
this system, as long as the place where you read your email
the most uses Outlook Express.
Otherwise
it is safer to use DdMail which automatically leaves mail on
the Server.
2.
For Eudora, simply open the program and click on the menu "Tools".
Under the option "Message Upload" on the left, you
will find a similar set of options as above. Make sure "Leave
a copy of Messages on Server" is ticked.
How to avoid long download times for large Emails.
If
you wish to avoid waiting sometimes many minutes to download
emails you may not necessarily want, or have already read, you
can manage your mail first using DdMail. There you can read
the message online, reply, delete it, or download its attachments.
Deleting it will mean that when you use Outlook or Eudora etc.,
the message will not download, thus avoiding possible long waits
on the phone-line.
