FreePoPs is a program which allows people with email accounts at various web-based email providers to collect their mail using a conventional local email client, even if the email provider does not directly support viewing and downloading of mail. Check it out.

1. Close all open applications. ALL of them.
2. Close freepops. Find the "freepops" icon in the system tray (lower right corner of your screen, little green do lookin' thingy with "FP" in the middle), right click it and select exit... make sure you get the right one.
3. Locate your new LUA file (whatever.lua) and copy it into thie following folder:
   c:\program files\freepops\lua
   1. Make sure it goes into the "lua" folder, inside the "freepops" folder, inside the "program files" folder, it won't get used if it's not in there.
   2. With that in mind, make sure there are no files that end with LUA in the "freepops" folder. They will cause problems.
4. Reboot...
5. After a restart, the mail should flow from your freepops account(s) again.