Web email

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A webmail portal is just another way to access your email account.
Same room, different door.
 
we all know the internet is made of tubes. you should put a damper in the
tubes to redirect your mail flow.
 
mike said:
How do I stop my email from going to my webmail portal email account?
Thank you
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The others have given you the correct answer of "you can't", but here is a
little more information about email. Don't feel bad; lots of people find it
confusing. :-)

When someone sends an email to you, that email goes and lives on one of your
ISP's computers. This computer is called a mail server. Now you have a
choice as to how to get that email.

1. You can access it by reading it online, using your ISP's mail program.
This is called webmail.

a. The advantage is that you can read your mail from any computer that's on
the Internet. You just need to open a browser like Internet Explorer or
Firefox, go to the webmail address and login. The email still lives on the
ISP's mail server, not on your computer. It is scanned for viruses by the
ISP's antivirus software.

b. The disadvantages to webmail are 1) if you have dialup and/or pay for
Internet access by the minute, you have to be online to read your mail; 2)
you might not like the ISP's webmail interface.

2. Or you can access the email by using an email client like Outlook,
Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Thunderbird, etc. Doing this downloads the
email onto your computer and off the ISP's mail server. You can no longer
access your email from anywhere except on your own computer in the email
client you use.

So if you don't want to use the ISP's webmail, you need to set up an email
client. Go to the ISP's website and they will have instructions for doing
this with whatever email client you chose.

Hope that has clarified things a bit for you.

Malke
 
Jack said:
we all know the internet is made of tubes. you should put a damper in the
tubes to redirect your mail flow.
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I thought they were blocks and pipes. They also use Duct tape.
 
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