Hi Patricia, I'm just getting caught up on e-mail, and ran into your message.
As I have found out recently, Outlook Express is very much portable, more so than even I thought. One thing you can do is create a new identity on your daughter's computer in Outlook Express. At that point, when you switch identities, create the account by pressing alt+T for the tools menu, then the letter A for accounts. Once you are on that dialog box, tab over to the add button, or, if you've already created the account, highlight it in the list and tab to the properties button. Once in the account properties dialog box, edit the name field, as it will most likely say pop.something.something, blah, blah, blah. Once you've edited the field, control+tab over to the servers tab, and enter the server address you have set in your Outlook Express at home. Tab again to the next field, and enter your daughter's SMTP server address for outgoing mail. once you have done this, tab to the username and password field and enter it as you have it on your computer at home. Check out the settings your daughter has. If it is high speed, she will most likely have to check the box that says "My Server Requires Authentication". If she does not have high speed internet, then go ahead and check this box. Once you check this box, if you tab again, you'll land on a button that has suddenly become available that is titled settings. Press the spacebar and you'll be taken to another dialog box that requires you to make a choice. By default, this box is set to "Use the same settings as my incoming mail server". What you want to do is press the down arrow so it reads, "Log on using:". This will make the edit fields below this checkbox available. Once they become available, input your daughter's log on information that she uses to send mail. Obviously, this will require your daughter to give you these settings. Please keep in mind to input just your daughter's outgoing mail server. If there's any confusion, this is the box which contains the letters SMTP. Once you've entered the information, tab to the ok button, and you'll land on the settings button of the previous dialog box. You are pretty much done with this tab , so control+tab over to the advanced page, and set the boxes for outgoing mail server port numbers, which is the first box you hit once you land on this tab, and enter the information your daughter has on her account. tab to the checkbox and check or uncheck the box according to what your daughter has on her account. Now, tab again to the incoming mail server port numbers, and enter the numbers that you have at home in this box. tab again, and set the checkbox to what ever it is on your computer at home. Once you have done this tab down twice to the server port time-outs slider, and press the end key to take it up to 100%, otherwise bulky attachments may have to be loaded through web mail. Please take note... It has been my experience that if you are going to change the numbers for the incoming and outgoing mail server ports, you should check the boxes if they require checking, otherwise the boxes above the port numbers will revert back to the default. Other than that, should you want to keep a copy of the messages to download to your computer at home when you get back there, check on the box that says leave a copy of messages on the server, so by default, this box is not checked, so if you choose to do this, press the spacebar to check the box. Once you have done all of this, you are pretty much finished, so tab to apply, then shift+tab over to the ok button. This will land you back in the accounts dialog box, so tab over to the close button and close it, now you can go ahead and send and recieve messages at your leisure, and when your daughter wants to read her mail, she can just switch identities and she doesn't have to worry about your e-mails or settings. That isn't to say that you can't check your e-mail through Outlook Express without doing all this silly stuff, you can, just copy the account information you have at home on your account or various accounts into your new account you have set up on your daughter's computer, but the steps I have outlined above give you the ability to send, as well as receive, which you can't normally do on another person's server. ISP's are notorious for that, but thanks to A T & T servers, which I happened to get very well acquainted with lately, I have been able to download my mail using my laptop and using the same settings I used with very little modification. Before, I could check my mail, I just couldn't respond to them, but now I can. I hope this helps you. 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