Couple of questions

[Courtney Christensen]

>
> Well, I've tried Evolution and Thunderbird and all those. They want pop
> servers, they don't seem to be set up to read http mail. I thought someone
> might know off the top of their heads. It's okay I guess, I can just open up
> Firefox and go to Hotmail but I am used to reading it in a standalone.
>
> Marti
>
>

I haven't used my hotmail account in ages, but I think there are POP
settings for it.  In fact this Ubuntu forum thread is entitled "
HOWTO: Send and Receive Hotmail through Evolution".
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=200408

Either way you go, enjoy!

-Courtney

PS Gmail is better :)