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Makes the email on your PC remotely accessible over the Internet.
Pushes new messages directly to your PDA or mobile phone.
MailRelayer™
Makes the email on your PC remotely accessible over the Internet. Pushes new messages directly to your PDA or mobile phone.
Who can use MailRelayer?
Users of Microsoft® Outlook®.
What do I need to access my email remotely?
Any Web browser or almost any email client including those on iPhones, Treos, Palms and most smart mobile phones.
Read more details of MailRelayer™ on this page below and what this email software can do for you...
What’s so great about MailRelayer?
You get easy access to all your email, not just your new messages but all your accumulated messages too, no matter where you are – be that in the next office or in Hawaii (as long as you have an Internet connection). And all your mail stays safely on your PC. List of Features
Does it have other uses?
Yes! MailRelayer also allows you to give other authorized people access to your email.
What’s so great about it?
What does it require of my PC?
Cost: US$39
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What you need to gain remote access for your email
MailRelayer is designed so that you do not need any special software on the computer where you access your email. All you need is either a Web browser or an email client.
Web Browsers
Any up-to-date Web browser will do. And it can be a Web browser running on any kind of computer, not necessarily another Windows system. Using a Web browser enables tremendous flexibility: you can retrieve your email from an Internet cafe, from a colleague’s PC, even from an airplane! And thanks to MailRelayer’s support for one-time passwords, you can confidently read your mail from a public Internet terminal without fear of anyone stealing your account credentials.
When you use a Web browser you need to liaise with MailRelayer using a IMAP-to-WebMail gateway. Several of these are discussed in the product’s documentation. Some of them offer a free service while others require a paid subscription.
Email Clients
When you regularly access your email from the same remote computer – say from your notebook or home PC – you will do better to use an email client. You can use any email client that supports IMAP (almost all the popular ones do). You do not have to use the same client as on your base PC – indeed you don’t even need to use a Windows client. MailRelayer’s documentation lists recommended clients and discusses their merits.
Pocket PCs and Palms
If you have a Pocket PC then you can use MailRelayer with the email client that is built in to the unit. If you have a Palm, Treo (or similar) then you will need to equip it a suitable email client; our recommended choice is Palm’s VersaMail.
Mobile Phones
Most contemporary mobile phones include IMAP-capable email clients including the Apple iPhone.
Sprint PCS Business Connection
Sprint PCS Business Connection uses nothing other than IMAP to retrieve email. So, if you subscribe to the Personal Edition of this service, you can use it with MailRelayer. And this is true no matter when device you use it on.
What does it require of my PC?
Please read our full technical explanation.
Cost: US$39