Doug,
back to your email problem away from home ... you should install a copy of Mailwasher. It's a freebie from a bloke in Christchurch NZ. It interrogates your ISP's POP3 server and sends you back a list of the sender, etc & the first 400 bytes (I think) if you choose. Anything you don't want to download you can delete or you can also bounce back to the sender any spam.
I just checked, it's no longer free. You might want to check it out anyway.
Mailwasher homepage
Cheers