Exchange is just like an advanced version of imap. You could just find an imap mail host. All mail is stored on the server pretty much, you log into check it from there. You can always set it up so you can remote into your computer also and check your mail web based.


XP Pro
Right click My Computer, click Remote, and enable it.
Go to Windows add remove components,
install IIS and the terminal services client

Quick way to get your home ip, www.whatismyip.com

http://youriphere/tsweb/ and login to your desktop.

It's IE6+ only, needs ActiveX.