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To: GraceZ who wrote (23624)	7/18/2000 6:15:44 PM
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If you had an @Home email address you could pick up your mail via any mail program... But only if you use @Home as ISP. At least I could not find any information about POP3 access at excite.com tonight. Maybe I didn't look hard enough. but you can't send it unless you are on a cable connection. I think they do this for security reasons. Email transfers between the PC and the Web-based service can be encrypted by SSL, for instance. Web based email is still way too clunky and slow, even on a fast connection. Web-based mail is fantastic if you use POP3/SMTP regularly but are also able to read with a browser if you are travelling. In fact, recently I had my first WAP session with a Motorola cell phone checking my Yahoo! email. I hear HotMail can be picked up from Outlook (figures MSFT would make it work with Outlook). Again I could not find a reference to POP3/SMTP access at hotmail.com. BTW, here's the Yahoo! help page for POP3/SMTP access: help.yahoo.com And here a comparable German service which is the most popular email service here (several million users): gmx.net GMX was one of the first services to introduce SSL-encrypted message transfer.