Accessing personal email while traveling can be something of a challenge. In an earlier article, I discussed actually getting access to the Internet.

That is the toughest part of checking your email while traveling. Once you get access, most ISP’s have provided a way for you to access your email remotely.

If you have a notebook, you should be able to start up your regular email program and download your emails from your usual ISP’s POP3 servers. In order to do this, I have a free dialup account at NetZero (which lets me have up to 10 hours dialup per month - Free!).

One problem, though, is that you will not be able to send email via your regular ISP if you haven’t dialed into their network (this is an anti-spam protection, to prevent the sending of spam).

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