Using Web-Based Mail Programs
WINDOWS LIVE MAIL (often known by its previous name, Hotmail) and Yahoo Mail are both web-based mail programs, but the Galaxy S II lets you read them using its built-in email software. Just create new accounts for them (see Advanced Gmail Searching), and you’ll be able to use its email software to read them.
But if you’d like, you can read email from Hotmail and Yahoo, or any other Web-based mail program, simply by visiting the site with your phone’s web browser, and you should be able to use the email site just as if you were using it on a computer. In some cases, when you visit the site, you’ll be automatically routed to a site specifically built for smartphones, so that all the features are formatted nicely for your phone.

In some instances, there might even be an app you can download from the Android Marketplace, or from the Web, that you can use instead of a web browser. Search the Android Marketplace (Using Market) to see.
Note
In some cases the downloadable app may not be built by the company that owns the web-based email service, but instead by a third party. It’s generally better to find an app built by the original developer.
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