Using Web-based email accounts with TBird or Mozilla?

[John Seth]

GMail has a few "additions" such as Gmail's File System, and other 
addons I've seen at SourceForge.net.  I am not sure about Yahoo, and 
Hotmail I've only ever seen importable/downloadable via another 
Microshaft product such as "Lookout Express" and it's bigger counterpart 
Outlook.

   - Tony


Joe wrote:
> Hi.  I've never used a Web-based email account like gmail/hotmail/yahoo.
> 
> Is it possible to configure an email program like Thunderbird (or <gasp> 
> Lookout Express) to read the email into my computer just like it works 
> when I get email from my regular ISP?
> 
> Hopefully this won't start a flame war, etc., but aside from not really 
> wanting to patronize M$ by using hotmail, are some web based email 
> systems better than others?  I know a lot of people seem to like gmail.
> 
> Joe
>