If you were not made aware of a pw, all the email addies were probably set up with the same pw. If your office girl knows it all you have to do is set up your email account on one of your working computers and log in from there.

When you get your new computer, you can set up the new outlook program or maybe even continue to use Express if you have the software to load it up. You could also go to something like Thunderbird. Doesn’t make much sense to continue using Express.

It all started out as a good idea. And then the experts got their paws on it.

A church were I started an AA meeting almost thirty years ago and has been running with no problems for that time got an attorney on it’s Board. Now they have presented us with all manner of requirements and regulations, including which cups we can use and where they MUST be stored. Anyone touching the thermostat must sign, and the office must be notified if the ONE key is given to someone else. That’s after someone signs a release of liability for the entire group, as if they could.

Whatever happened to Eudora?

Confirm, “Outlook” sends and receives mail for your office from a central mail server; “Outlook Express” reads mail from the server and organizes it on your desktops. I’m sure it makes sense to Microsoft.

Never had a web interface.

I should have known the username would be the email address.

So MS “Outlook” (if we have it) sends and receives the email and “Outlook Express” lives on the desktops and reads and organizes them? Is that close?

I don’t know anything about ports but can study up on them.

You gave me alot to go on. Thank you Robert

“Outlook Express” is a mail client living on your five desktops, while “Outlook” is Microsoft’s email server. You may or may not be using Outlook server; it’s kind of expensive, especially compared to all the no-charge open-source software out there. Your server is more likely to be something like Postfix.

Do you recall ever using a Web interface to email? It’s common to install it alongside an email server, and if it exists and you used it in the past, your web browser might remember the login credentials. Most webmail packages let you change the password, and if you get in using a stored password, change the password to something you know first thing. Webmail is usually installed at the same address as the email server, as a web site ending in something like “/mail/” or “/webmail/” or “/squirrelmail/”.

You can access your email from any computer that can connect to the mail server, as long as you have a mail client and the login credentials. The other computer might have Outlook Express installed, or you could download an open-source email client like Mozilla Thunderbird (the open-source incarnation of the old Eudora commercial email program). BTW, your “username” on most mail systems is your email account, so you have half of what you need. What’s left is the password, and if you’re the type to reuse the same password in multiple places, you might have a shot at guessing it. Connect the mail client to the email server address using POP3 (the one protocol all email servers support) on port 110 to retrieve mail and port 25 to send. Most mail servers are configured to require authorization, so check that. Then start to hack the password.

You might get lucky, but your expectations should be low. This is one big Hail Mary pass. Good luck.