Acessing company emails, on the road, via a browser.

[Recruitsmiths]

Hello All.
Some advice please, is there anyway I can access my company emails, while I'm on the road, via an on-line browser. e.g. my email address is info@xyz.co.za I have Firefox and Chrome installed.
My personal laptop, running Ubuntu linux 14.04 gives fairly good battery life (4hrs) and I have a 3G dongle already configured on it to surf the web. So, I was thinking if I can read and respond to my emails with this, instead of returning to office and finding 30 x mails stacked up.
Can also finish some urgent work over weekends this way.

I did Google and found something called "myway"...didn't get far with it though.
Neither looking for a "paid" solution as it is my own requirement. More looking for an 'add on or extension' to a browser or a free utility.
Thanks...

 

[saor]

Set up a forward to a gmail address?

 

[Recruitsmiths]

OK...will consider if no other options. Thanks...

Set up a forward to a gmail address?

 

[Arthur]

Is your company using a hosted POP or IMAP mail system? If so, the chances are 99% the same hoster has a webmail facility. In which case you just log in using your browser.

If using eg Exchange, there are various solutions.

We need to know what mail system your company uses.

 

[Recruitsmiths]

Hi Arthur
POP mail system

Is your company using a hosted POP or IMAP mail system? If so, the chances are 99% the same hoster has a webmail facility. In which case you just log in using your browser.

If using eg Exchange, there are various solutions.

We need to know what mail system your company uses.

 

[Recruitsmiths]

Need to go to shops, will be back to respond later.

 

[Arthur]

Contact your hosting company and get the URL for their webmail. It might even be on their homepage.

Enter your creds and you're in.

 

[LazyLion]

Is your company using a hosted POP or IMAP mail system? If so, the chances are 99% the same hoster has a webmail facility. In which case you just log in using your browser.

If using eg Exchange, there are various solutions.

We need to know what mail system your company uses.

Best Solution!

 

[sajunky]

When using Webmail make sure you access mail server by https, not http, as you will expose your local intranet mail to the Internet spying agencies. VPN connection is the best, as you can access all your local resources on the LAN, not only Email.

 

[bekdik]

Try http://web2mail.com - I've used it for years.

 

[diabolus]

If it is a POP mail server, you can set it up in your Gmail account. So Gmail will pull the mail for you into your account there and that is obviously web based. You can also set up Gmail to "reply-as" with the work account ,even though you are typing it in regular web gmail it will then still show to people receiving the email that is from the Work email.

Link to how to set it up :
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/21289?hl=en

If you have multiple email accounts, you can check them all in Gmail. Gmail’s Mail Fetcher feature first imports all your old messages to Gmail and then continues to bring in new messages sent to your other account. You can add up to 5 accounts, including Gmail and other email providers.

 

[ODTech]

If it is a POP mail server, you can set it up in your Gmail account. So Gmail will pull the mail for you into your account there and that is obviously web based. You can also set up Gmail to "reply-as" with the work account ,even though you are typing it in regular web gmail it will then still show to people receiving the email that is from the Work email.

Link to how to set it up :
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/21289?hl=en

Why not teamviewer into your work pc if your network admin has no objections?

 

[The Voice]

OWA?

 

[Hamster]

OWA?

This. Isn't this the obvious solution?!

 

[diabolus]

This. Isn't this the obvious solution?!

OWA is only available on exchange servers, didnt see the OP mention exchange , only POP. But yes, on exchange it is obvious solution..

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[diabolus]

Why not teamviewer into your work pc if your network admin has no objections?

Well most travelers travel with their work pcs (laptops). Also, it is very bandwidth intensive to remote into another pc to just read mail (you are effectively streaming the entire time while you read emails). Plus it isn't exactly mobile friendly either.

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[sajunky]

The old school is POP offline Email client configured to download but not delete Emails from the server. User should refresh all Email before leaving office. On the road selective download is used. It downloads headers only and allows to select messages for downloading. I used Pegasus which allowed to do it. That was before IMAP access became popular, now available on any smartphone.

Any external access (POP or IMAP) to the company server is completely unsecure, unless VPN connection is established. The same apply to redirecting Email to Google account.