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One of the challenges of going on the road is how to access your e-mail, especially if you don't carry your own laptop with access to a dial-up account in remote locations.

For most users, the best solution is a Web based e-mail account, which you can access from any Internet-connected computer, anywhere. Happily, free Web based e-mail account services are ubiquitous, with literally hundreds, if not thousands available. We offer one here at Applelinks, which you can sign up for at this URL:
http://www.applelinks.com/register/join.shtml

With web-based email, you use a browser to access the email provider's site, log in with a user name and password, and do your thing. The email service stores your messages for you. You can compose, send and receive messages, and many services offer extra features, such as spellcheckers and address books.

For a reasonably comprehensive, although far from exhaustive, listing of Web-based e-mail services, check out Edwin Hayward's Web-based Email page, which lists a vast number of them in alphabetical order.

For a service that offers substantially more than just e-mail in a Web-based office away from home format, check out Norada Corporation's JungleMate.com

Formerly called WebAddressBook.com, JungleMate provides you with your email, address book, calendar, files and bookmarks all on the Web so you never have to be without them as long as you have access to a computer hooked up to the Internet. JungleMate is reliable, efficient, and lets you move from one computer to another without losing access to your personal information.

You can also configure your JungleMate e-mail account so that up to four POP 3 based e-mail accounts will be forwarded to it while you're on the road (or all the time, if you wish), Other JungleMate features include: stop delivery of email from specific addresses; access a spellchecker; get automatic email reminders of birthdays and anniversaries; and the ability to configure guest accounts so that other people can view information on your JungleMate account.

Norada Corporation also offers a paid service called Solve360, which is similar to JungleMate but offers users more services. It was designed to benefit organizations and service providers as a value added and possible revenue enhancing software. You can check out what Solve360 has to offer at http://www.norada.com

Charles W. Moore

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