# Remote email access

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remote-email-access/52670>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 1, 2001, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remote-email-access/52670 "2001-02-01T03:32:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Stylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Stylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stylus)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remote-email-access/52670/1 "2001-02-01T03:32:12Z")

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Does anyone know of a remote email access site, similar to but not [Mailstart.com](http://Mailstart.com)? Mailstart is limiting access to once a week unless a very small fee is paid- which is justified. I however would like to hold out a bit longer before having to pay.

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**Author:** ![Zor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/848f3c/32.png) [@Zor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zor)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remote-email-access/52670/2 "2001-02-01T03:52:56Z")

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[Hotmail](http://www.hotmail.com) has a POP3 account manager that lets you view your e-mails from up to four different servers through their site. You don’t need to know what POP3 is. If you got it to work with [Mailstart.com](http://Mailstart.com), you can get it to work with Hotmail. I’m pretty sure most of the larger free e-mail providers also offer this service as well…

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**Author:** ![ScoobyTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@ScoobyTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScoobyTX)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remote-email-access/52670/3 "2001-02-01T03:56:03Z")

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Yahoo! has the same feature, but with 3 POP3 accounts accessible.