Microsoft Outlook Express

Einhard

Does anyone know if an Outlook account can be accessed on other computers or through a mobile, or do you have to use the same computer all the time?

Thanks.

Torqay

Outlook Express is dead.

Install Thunderbird, import your mails, address book and account settings, then use Mozbackup and backup the lot. Install Thunderbird on the new machine and restore with Mozbackup.

Or use Thunderbird portable on the old machine and import from OE. Now copy the TBird folder and can use it anywhere even from a USB stick. However, there is a catch: it's a bit awkward to set TBird portable as the default mail client (i.e. starting TBird portable when clicking on a mailto link)

P.S.: I like that name.

Einhard

Thanks for the reply. It's for my father, and if I tell him what you recommended he'll expect me to do it for him. So I think the answer for him is: No.

Why are you so enamoured with the name btw?

Torqay

Sry, I misunderstood the question, I thought he wanted to move his mails to another computer.

The easiest way to keep your mails in sync with other computers or mobile devices would be changing to IMAP rather than POP3 (if the provider supports it, that is. eircom for example is still living in the stone age). If IMAP is not an option, create a gmail account and use it to fetch mails from the email account in question (of course, this only works for new emails). Now you can access your mails anywhere.