setting up thunderbird

[hairyhippy]

to collect mail from gmail, hotmail and outlook. I'm struggling. Can anyone help?

[woollypigs]

I got thunderbird running with IMAP on gmail, hotmail with "webmail" never tried it to sync with outlook though.

EDIT:

WebMail

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=75725

Geek To Live: Turn Thunderbird into the Ultimate Gmail IMAP Client

[Sergeant Pluck]

I have it running with Gmail and I've used it with others in the past (not Outlook though). I seem to recall it was straightforward enough, and Gmail and Thunderbird FAQs cover it well.

What specifically is the difficulty?

[border-rider]

I use it with Gmail using POP3 and SMTP

I recall having real difficulties trying to set it up manually using the instructions from Google, but when I set up a new account in T-Bird it seemed to sort out all the settings itself and just worked.

[fred the great]

Off topic slightly but I just run Gmail through Firefox which is simple