How can you set up your email account on another computer?

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karine11

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#77607 18-Feb-2011 17:13

my hard drive on my pc has died and its the only access i have to my xtra email account......how do i access this via my laptop?

mckenndk

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#441275 18-Feb-2011 17:15

Xtra has a webmail feature and if you go to the Xtra site and go into help there are instructions for different email clients to setup email.

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karine11

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#441276 18-Feb-2011 17:16

thanks dion thats awesome will try it now

cyril7

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#441283 18-Feb-2011 17:42

Hi, only issue is that your past/historic email has probably vanished, do yourself a favour, drop you xtra account, get a gmail or hotmail(windowslive) account and use a cloud email setup, you will never reget it.

Cyril

karine11

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#441287 18-Feb-2011 18:18

its actually my xtra account using my outlook express.... i dont know how to send that to another computer

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#441289 18-Feb-2011 18:51

You can't, you'll have to use webmail - far easier. It won't have any e-mails you've downloaded to your computer tho.

https://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?.partner=tnz&.intl=nz&.src=ym

karine11

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#441292 18-Feb-2011 19:12

yea but will it recieve the emails i send to that address

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#441356 18-Feb-2011 22:48

Of course it will, you're only checking your mailbox from a different computer. As long as you don't check it on your main machine (or download it anywhere else) new mails should show up in your inbox via webmail.

foremannz

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#441397 19-Feb-2011 06:34

When you setup your email on your new computer, setup the outlook to leave the emails on the server for 30 days, that way if you cannot access your computer, your webmail will still have a 30 day window of incoming emails.

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