Milly said:
You cannot access Outlook remotely unless you are using Remote Desktop and
someone is at your home computer to accept the connection. You would be
better served by leaving your mail on Comcast's server and using the web
interface when away from home.
You're thinking of Remote Assistance. Remote Desktop (RDP) doesn't
require anyone to be at the remote host to complete a login or connect.
You have to enable RDP (to accept connections) and punch port 3389
through your firewall (on you remote host and router, if you have one).
You could also use VNC variants, like UltraVNC, to connect to your
remote host.
The problem with RDP and VNC, or anytime you want to connect to your
remote host, is that you need to know the IP address of the remote host
since it likely has a dynamic IP address. You can't use an IP name but
one hasn't been assigned to your remote host. You could use DynDNS or
No-IP.org to run their client on your remote host that reports back to
their service what is your current IP address, and then you use their IP
name for your host, like <yourhost>.dyndns.org, to specify that host in
the RDP or VNC client.
Might be easier for the OP to use LogMeIn (
http://www.logmein.com/).
TeamViewer would also work but you have to set it up as a server on the
remote host so the hostID remains the same (which you will have to
remember when connecting from another host).
