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I have my email client set up so that any time I open Outlook Express (yes, I know... but my email needs are so simple and basic that Outlook Express does just what I want) anyway, I open Outlook Express and it automatically goes to the ISP's mail server and downloads whatever emails are there to the local hard drive of whatever computer I am using at the time, then deletes the mail from the server.


I usually transfer my (gasp!) OE mailboxes (e.g. to a new laptop) as Rob suggested. However, to avoid 'something here, something there', there are several solutions. One is IMAP, as Bitt advises. Another is using web-based mail interface. Both require internet connection not only to read new mail, but also to search the archive.

What I do is this: I configure all my POP3 clients to leave messages on the server (or delete them after a week or so, depending on volume of traffic and space allocation on particular server). That way I have at least a week to download them to all of my client machines. In addition to that I set the servers to forward all my messages to yet another server with lots of space and a decent web interface (Gmail at the moment, will be moved to a machine I control), so that I can access them from any machine, even from a cyber cafe.
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