I'm not talking about a phone. I'm talking about mac OSX. The desktop OS.
Oh. Sorry. I didn't catch the part where you didn't have a WP7 phone yet. You really need to get one of those. They are quite nice

Live mail is an odd thing. It works great with Live Mail on the PC and with Outlook on the PC, but they've kind of forgotten about the Mac by just giving it POP service.