How to Check Work Email From Home

Email is part of the normal business world in most jobs. In the past, being physically away from your job meant complete down time. With email, you can keep up with your work if you are home sick or otherwise away from your office. You can read your work email from home by forwarding it.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• email account

1. Get a personal email address. Yahoo and gmail are two popular, free email providers. Gmail provides POP access so that you can set up an email reader program to read your email offline and not just on the web.

2. Download and set up a personal email reader. Programs like Mozilla Thunderbird are free and allow you to download email messages to your home computer for viewing at any time, even if the email website is down or slow.
   
   The email reader will need a few pieces of information that you will have to get from the email provider. You will need your username, password and incoming and outgoing server addresses. The server address may look like this: pop.gmail.com or smtp.gmail.com.

3. Set up a forward file. You will need to talk to the IT person at your job to get the specifics but you can always set up a forwarding command that will send a copy of every message that comes into your inbox to another email address. Usually you just need to set up a file that contains the email address where you want the mail forwarded. Don't forget to turn off the forwarding or make sure the email stays on the work server so that you can access it when you get back to the office.