posted on June 15, 2001 04:09:50 AM
just spent a frustrating half hour in tech help. I'm going out of town and somebody please tell me how to read my mail in outlook from an aol account. or do I sign in to my @home account? or what? Make it VERY simple please, say, do this, click here, it is very early in the morning and I am blonde on my second cup of coffee and we are leaving in an hour. I forgot about reading my email. thank you
posted on June 15, 2001 04:23:32 AM
I think I may be able to help you with this one - first, AOL is has it's own email system, so you can't access other mail from AOL, unless you're using AOL's browser out to the web.
You would just go to the web, and login to your @home account from the web - so go to your @home site, login with your username and password and it should give you an option as to where to check email.
posted on June 15, 2001 04:32:36 AM
There is also a service at http://www.mail2web.com that allows you to read your email from any computer when you are not at your own. I use it to access my email when I'm at work.
You would type in your email address and email password (it does not store your password) and any email messages you have are listed on the screen. You can also respond to and forward messages.
posted on June 15, 2001 04:43:45 AM
you guys are so GOOD. Imagine, I've been tied up in knots for the past hour for nothing! Thanks.
(and aol said it couldn't be done<g>
I am an AOL GRADUATE!
posted on June 15, 2001 09:45:18 AM
kidsfeet, that's exactly what I do. glassgrl, since you use @home, this works.
If you are using Outlook from a business utilizing Exchange mail Server, then this won't work. You'll have to use one of those synchronization services like fusionone.com I use this since I like to sync up my calendar, contacts, tasks, and bookmarks too!
posted on June 15, 2001 11:12:13 AM
last i knew, you can also check your aol mail from their web site. haven't done it since they first offered it, but as i recall, you go to their main web site, look around for the link to it ('web mail' or 'check your email' or somesuch), log in, check/read your mail.
kittyx3
edited to add you can also reply to email from there, too. perhaps write new ones.
[ edited by kittykittykitty on Jun 15, 2001 11:13 AM ]
posted on June 15, 2001 11:16:28 AM
Kitty is correct, if you go to www.aol.com, the main screen is where you log in, and the next screen has your links for mail, etc.
posted on June 15, 2001 07:32:27 PM
THANKS!
http://www.mail2web.com worked fine, except I couldn't read any old mail. guess I didn't need to anyway, I can live without it. Just didn't want to miss any of those important "question from ebay user" or those kind of things. still can't get the yahoo thingy to work. it won't connect to @home. p.s. I have outlook and wanted to check that mail through the aol users computer I have access to. I don't have aol anymore (much...it's being cut off next week, i just kept it while I'm transferring all my email accounts)
and @home won't let you in, well the excite page will but my mail is on outlook, not excite.
