Using Web-based email accounts with TBird or Mozilla?

[Dustin Reiner]

Gmail and Yahoo offer pop3 access to your mailbox, so you could set up
Thunderbird to read it that way.  Yahoo charges extra for that
service, but Gmail offers it for free.

-Dustin

On 5/11/05, John Seth <johnseth at phoenixwing.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
> 
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