cant send or receve e-mail while using remote desk top

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Take a look at the following page which describes why you get this
behavior and how you can fix it (if allowed by your work network):

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/c [...] g1003.mspx

Jeffrey Randow (Windows Networking & Smart Display MVP)
jeffreyr-support@remotenetworktechnology.com

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On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 07:58:32 -0400, "Don Smith" <don.smith@dsctc.com>
wrote:

>ok
>I have no problems using vpn to connect to my work network and then using
>remote desk top to connect to my workstation. I'm able to open
>applications,view my files use IE to go to the internet. the only thing I
>cant seem to do is send and receive mail in outlook. I can open all my
>folders and see and open messages that are all ready there.
>when I do try send and receive I get errors saying that it could not connect
>to the incoming pop3 server.
>the e-mail account is hosted by my isp.
>I have no problems getting mail when logged on locally when I'm at work.
>