Part-time email with Outlook expresss

[pscot]

My toshiba laptop has a wireless lan connection via a linksys router. Sometimes my email dries up (like now). The desktop machine continues to recieve email, so it's not the server. After a while email will resume, but it sometimes takes several days. Rebooting the laptop and/or the router seems to have no effect. When I hit send/receive, the dialogue box flashes on the screen, but doesn't stay. When email resumes, it behaves normaly until it decides not to. Internet access continues to work normally throughout.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

1. Questions

Can you send email from the laptop using Outlook Express?

Do you have the mail client on your desktop setup to delete email from the server after download?

[pscot]

2. I can send email

and the two machines recieve email independently. This was not intentional. Few things on my system are.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

3. If you can send email, then something is still working

I'm just wondering if your desktop computer is downloading the email messages first, deleting them from the server, then when you try to download them on the laptop, they are already gone? It depends what type of mail server you have. Is it POP3 or IMAP?

[Old and In the Way]

4. That's what it sounds like to me, too.

If you have 2 PC's with the same e-mail client open, whichever one gets the e-mail 1st will probably delete the e-mail from the server...assuming that the "delete after downloading" option is selected. When I want to monitor my business e-mail on my home laptop, I have to shut my business PC's e-mail client (Office Outlook) down. I can read my e-mails on my home laptop but they stay up on the server because I keep that option set in my webmail client.