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Does an email address apply to a computer or an internet connection?
06-24-2014, 05:42 AM
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email is sent to a user @ a domain, such as Luna123@comcast.net. The domain mail server gets it and holds it until it is requested by your computer, using the credentials set up in Windows Mail or Outlook Express. The Windows Mail setup asks for the mail server name, and your login name/email, and eventually your password.

Only then, it lets you read the email on your computer. If you set your PC to keep the emails on the server instead of deleting them, you can go to another computer and read them. Most people have it set to the default, which is "delete from server" when retrieved. So then those emails are not available from a new computer unless you copy them over.

So, it's not the connection, as in wireless network, that matters. It's the computer that sends the authenticated request that gets the mail.

This does not apply to webmail, the way most yahoo or gmail people get their mail. Those emails are kept on the webmail servers and you can get to them wherever you have Internet access.

And of course, there are a million possibilities of different server configurations, so not everything here applies to everyone! Sorry for the long answer. Good luck figuring it out...
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[] - SeanC - 06-24-2014, 05:18 AM
[] - mpj - 06-24-2014, 05:29 AM
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