That isn't responsive to his issue, Jeff.  

Lew, the problem you will have is if you access the internet from a different ISP, you will most certainly need a web-based e-mail solution.  You're right, they aren't nearly as convenient.

What I've found is that how easy it is depends a lot on your internet provider.  Comcast's was harder to access than SbcYahoo, for example.

Another option would be to use an e-mail accoount that allows you to use a pop3 server and then incorporate that into your Outlook Express account settings.  Yahoo has this, but at a cost.  Google Mail has the ability to be downloaded but you'll need to set up special ports, and you can search for those at Google because I forgot which ones they were.

HTH,
Steve, K8SP
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jeff Kenyon 
  To: [log in to unmask] 
  Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 6:35 PM
  Subject: Re: email away from home


  Hi Lou, does this computer have wireless on it?  If it doesn't go out and
  get a wireless  card that can attach to the machine.  I have a D-link
  card, and it seems to work every place there is a hotspot.





  On Fri, 4 May 2007, Lou Kolb wrote:

  > Hi all,
  >
  > I'm about to inherit my wife's old Toshiba laptop which I'm hoping will =
  > give me a lot more portability.  I know that many of you travel quite a =
  > bit and I'm wondering how you handle email when away from home.  I use =
  > outlook at work but I prefer outlook express which I use at home mainly =
  > because Jaws reads the messages automatically when they are opened.  =
  > I've tried various web mail solutions including Gmail from Google but =
  > I've found them all to be uncomfortable at best.  This is a shame =
  > because I like the concept of being able to access my email from any =
  > account anywhere.  I may well be missing something obvious here since I =
  > really haven't delved into this much so any ideas would be appreciated.  =
  > Thanks.  Lou WA3MIX
  >