To Check Your Email From Another Computer


I will improve this page later, but for now, here's a quick "how-To".
I suggest you bookmark this page and/or print it out.

For examples sake, lets say your ISP's (Internet Service Provider's) domain
name is "TGIF" and you are Jane Doe. Your user or log-in name might be
jane, and your email address would probably
be:     jane@tgif.com or whatever user name you had chosen.

In the Netscape Navigator menu bar go to

1. "Options", then down to
2. "Mail and News Preferences" and open. Then click on
3. "Servers" tab, go to
4. "Outgoing Mail [SMTP]Server" and type in: mail.tgif.com Then go to
5. "Incoming Mail [POP3] Server Name" and type in: mail.tgif.com then go to
6. "[POP3] Server Name" and type in jane. Go down to
7.  "Messages are copied from the server to the local disk, then:" and  check
8.  "Left on the server".   Then go to the
9.  "Identity" tab and at
10. "Your Name:" type in: Jane Doe. Then go to
11. "Your Email:" type in: jane@tgif.com. Your done here for now, go down and  CLICK
12. "OK" at the bottom, then go to the top left of your window and CLICK on the
13. "Get Mail" button and your mail will download from the tgif server.

When you are finished reading your mail, be sure to change things back
to the way they were.

Notes:

It's important to check the "Left on the server" button if you want to
pick up the same emails at home. This allows you to just download copies
of your email to read and do whatever with and leaves the originals
(so-to-speak) on tgif's server. If "Removed from the server" is checked
it does just that. You can't retrieve it at home (it was removed! in other
words...Deleted!), you'll have to go back and forward the messages from the
computer you were visiting or have someone else on that computer forward it.

The [SMTP] Server is optional to fill in, but not necessary to change to
just get your messages. If you send email from the computer you are visiting
and you haven't changed this, it will reflect in your email that it came from that
computer . Have you ever receioved email from an email address you didn't
recognized only to open it and find it was sent (or signed) by your friend or
relative? They didn't change the outgoing SMTP part.

Don't forget to bookmark this or print it out!