<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'><div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <hr id="stopSpelling">> > 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 :) Awesome, thanks. That is EXACTLY what I wanted to do. I do have a Gmail account, but have used Hotmail for ages and ages. Viewing Hotmail thru Firefox is rather a pain in Linux. I can't seem to drag the viewing pane down to see how many messages I have and what they are about as I can in the Windows Firefox version. Marti </body> </html>