osx mail

Does anyone know if it is possible to set up my computer mail through aol so it will tell me if I have new mail etc. Or when on the internet if you want to e-mail someone and you hit the link it takes you to the mail. I want to set it up through aol or hotmail. Thanks

You can not set up AOL through mail but I think you can set up hotmail. go to hotmail.com and look around for POP3 mail

you can set up hotmail only using the hotmail plugin for mail, and I think you can use aol in mail by setting it up as an imap account.