Great news!
As of today, pop3 is now available for free for hotmail (and live)!!!
http://arstechnica.com/journals/micr...s-live-hotmail

For now, its only for United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.

You guys from US will have to wait a bit

Since I m from Canada I tired it with Claw Mail and was able to get all my old and new mails.
But for so reason I can t send a mail; it says that there s a problem with smtp server; but I did everything right; I think.

Any idea?