I am currently unable to use Outlook Express to contact my college's email servers. I can read my mail on their Web service but its a pain in the ass. <BR><BR>When I was on the school ethernet ...
Maybe you can find a free, or cheap, ISP who will let you use the SMTP "ETRN" command to download your mail -- it's kind of like POP3, but for SMTP. Usually it's used by servers on a dialup/demand ...