rather than opening up separate windows to check e-mails separately, is there some way to group them together to check simultaneously?

Download them with a pop3 email reader..

Or forward them all into one account (dont know if the free services provide this feature)..

first ... walk out onto Suk and ask a tout ......

then set up your Outlook

Thank you very much, Livin', that email forwarding is a great idea

Search for a program called POPPeeper. It can be set up to download mail from most web-based E-mail accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, Mail.com, etc.). Then you can read and reply to all of the mail from that one client.

Google Mail (still) offers free POP3/SMTP access, via a 3rd party client like Microsoft Outlook. Yahoo and Hotmail used to offer that service for free but now they charge for it.

There are a number of 3rd party add-ons that allow you similar functionality...

http://ypopsemail.com/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hotpop3

The best thing to do, is close Hotmail . After using Gmail, how can you even think about going back?

...Another way to do it, is set your Gmail address as your Hotmail, (and Yahoo) "reply-to" address. When people reply to you.. they will get your new email, and gradually move everyone to your new email.

Thanks Deke for that poppeeper. I had heard of this concept but never knew the name. thanks for other responses as well