Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Web Mail and POP Mail

I had a question from a reader: I have a small laptop and a PC. My PC email is working fine. My router is working because the laptop is online. Even though I have exactly the same email program in both, Eudora 6.2, and I have checked and rechecked that ALL the settings are exactly the same, the laptop Eudora cannot connect to my mail server. I've tried and tried and it times out.

It's just as well it doesn't work.  You are using a POP mail client, Eudora, and trying to use it with two different computers.  If you want to access a mail account from more than one location, use Web Mail, which means getting it with your browser.

I went to the Qwest web site, www.qwest.com, and found, at the very top, a link called 'check email'.  I clicked it and discovered it requires Windows.  I suggest you get a gmail account and forget Qwest.

1 comment:

  1. I'm pretty sure Eudora isn't POP-only, but also allows connection to IMAP accounts, which let you access mail from as many locations as you like. Gmail is IMAP, so you can use webmail or Eudora and it'll still have all the same messages in both places. (I use Apple Mail to check Gmail from my work and home computers.)

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