Yahoo's POP3 service is nicer though - works with YAM very well. You can send and receive e-mails using their service.
I suppose you could use the web interface just to "clean up" your e-mail box to empty it properly though (just move everything into the Inbox then use YAM to download it all).
You can only receive e-mails from Hotmail using YAM (using hotwayd), AFAIK. That works a treat too though. Bit hard to setup, though I managed it with a bit of trial and error.
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