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You can use gotmail (a perl script) to retrieve your hotmail account in a mbox then read it in evolution. It's not very convenient, but it's the only way i know.

A reason why Oo will get slower and slower to start is that it checks the pspfontcache file before starting, and this file gets bigger and bigger. Here is a trick i found giving some improvement: - delete ~/.openoffice/user/psprint/pspfontcache (your oo directory may have a different name) - start OpenOffice and then quit (just to make it restore a clean pspfontcache file) - make the pspfontcache read only to prevent it to grow : chmod 444 pspfontcache Anyway im running mdk 9.1 and i recently upgraded to Ooo 1.1.1 : it's much much faster!