email forwarding and saving

You can but not from excite, I do it from yahoo.com giving me online and offline mail.

I actually fwd from excite to yahoo because yahoo is so much faster when you go to check it. I have a lot of accs. setup from excite and a lot of people know that address so I don't want to cancel it.
Even if you don't follow thru with this I suggest you create an account at yahoo, It gives you twice the space and is at lease four times faster when you go to read your mail online.
From Yahoo you can go to "options" on the left hand sidebar, At the next page unless you use AOL keep the defaults ( if you use AOL) Choose "text" instead of HTML which is the default. Now at the bottom of this page click "submit"
At this page you will see all the infomation you need to put in to your offline mail program. Just below that you will see a selection of different mail programs such as Outlook, outlook express, Endura, Netscape which are the more common ones. Outlook express comes with all windows operating systems and outlook is part of the Microsoft office program so you probably have both.Click anyone of them and you have complete instructions for connecting them painlessly. Hope this helps.
This is also nice if you have ever want to change ISP's, your mail is still where you left it and accessible!

Greg