[Hudlug] setting up a gmail account

[MICHAEL WEAVER]

Ben suggested I maybe setup a Gmail account.
I have been looking at the Gmail page.
A lot of my genuine mail from mailing lists I am subscribed to seems to 
get put in my Bulk folder at BT so I have to end up marking each one 
separately just to move it back to my Inbox by marking the messages as 
Not spam.
Would possibly setting up a Gmail account avoid a lot of this problem 
and also can I use my Gmail details in an off-line program with whatever 
I use in Windows at the moment but eventually Linux when I migrate ie 
Evolution and will I still be able to post to my mailing lists or will I 
have to unsubscribe from one email address in order to use my Gmail account?