Mail with .Mac

Can you use the mail program with a .Mac account ?
Reason I'm asking is I will be living in Canada for a while and my wife will be back in the UK. Instead of using the web based .Mac mail I wondered whether it could be linked to the Mail application.

You can find everything here. .mac email is IMAP account by the way.
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