Can you get technical support from work? If it is 3 different computers having trouble with the same email account then it could be the email server which is something you don't have any control over. What is the email account? a work email account, yahoo, gmail, msn/hotmail? If the email account is a work account provided by wherever you work at then you should alert the tech people there that you have a problem with your account. With 3 different computers thats all that I can think of.

If it is yahoo or msn/hotmail account then I think that you have to pay them for a special account to allow you to use outlook to check your mail however that would mean that it wouldn't work (if you didn't pay for it) & not just work half of the time. Does this make any sense?

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