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Check e-Mail
There are basically two different ways to access your email:
Web Mail vs. Email Clients
Web Mail
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Email Clients
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Use a browser to access your email(WebMail)
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Use a PC based email client |
| like Hotmail, Yahoo mail, Gmail, Hord, Squirrel Mail and Round Cube |
Outlook and Outlook Express |
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Using WebMail to view your email does not download the messages to your PC. Instead, you are using an email program on the server designed for viewing, replying, deleting, and sending email directly from the mail server. WebMail is not designed to be a place for saving or storing email for long periods of time.
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When you use PC based email software, the message is downloaded and saved to your PC. The email server then deletes the message once you have saved it locally (you can, of course, setup your PC email software defaults to instruct the email server not to delete the message when you download it). Deleting the messages from the server prevents your email account from exceeding its quota (and possibly having your email account shut down until you remove the messages). |
| You can use WebMail to login and manage your email (you must manually remove it from the email server by deleting messages). |
You can use a PC email client to download your email to your PC (removing it from the email server). |
You can check your e-mail everywhere
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You can check your email only on your configured PC.
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You have to be online to see your e-mails
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You can see your old mails off-line
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There are three different web mail programs: Horde, Squirrel Mail and Round Cube. You can choose any one of them. After you enter the email program, you can see the features of each email program by clicking on "Options" or "Personal Settings".
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