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A friend (honest!) has just got a job with Argos and has an argos.co.uk email account and login.
How on earth can he access that via Outlook or Chrome?
I know about Macs but that qualifies me on a PC about as well as a knowledge of 1970s Fuzz pedals.
Haven't Argos told him?
There may be a web based way of doing it and they will know the url
That's what I thought.
We can log onto the Sainsburys/Argos site but where it says messages there are none, yet his contact in HR said she'd sent him one.
Oh well, I'll let him sort it with her tomorrow.
Thanks for that, shows I was going in the right direction.
The Windows 10 email app (not Outlook) might be able to pick that up?
When I set my Parents' PC and laptop up with Windows Mail it was just a case of adding an account and supplying the email address & password; Windows Mail queried the servers and picked up the details it needed (I'm pretty sure that there's an advanced option too for manually entering details).
If they have a webmail page, that should work on Chrome. Otherwise, you need the name of the mail server to set it up in Outlook. It might be something straightforward like mail.argos.uk
Ideally you also want the encryption type and things, but Outlook should have default values that might be right. I don't use Outlook so I don't know if Microsoft have used some weird stuff in the set up, unfortunately that's the kind of thing they do. If so I'd install an free email client like Mozilla Thunderbird and try that.
It seems odd to me that he's expected to access his email from home and hasn't been given a preconfigured laptop to do so.
As others have said, one or more of the following will be the case:
1) there will be some form of web portal,
2) he'll need to VPN in to the company network,
3) you might be able to point an Exchange client (ie, Outlook) at their mail server,
4) you might be able to point an SMTP / IMAP client at their mail server,
5) he's not allowed to do this from outside the office at all.
Which of these is the case is guesswork without a spot of light hacking. The mail looks to be externally hosted by ProofPoint so he might be able to login to their webmail - https://inbox.proofpoint.com/ . The bottom line though is that assuming it's not 5) above and this is something he's actually supposed to be doing, his employer should be providing the means to do it.