Ideas17 Mar 2008 12:03 pm

Web 2.0 E-Mail Client

Currently, I have at least 7 e-mail accounts, of which, I regularly use three. There are plenty of desktop e-mail clients that will allow me to use IMAP to combine all of these applications into a single e-mail inbox, but why isn’t there a service that allows me to have all of this “in the cloud”. I hate it when I am at a different computer other than my own and have to install my mail software and set up 7 different e-mail accounts, or visit 7 different pages in order to get my e-mail. Why isn’t there a web 2.0 e-mail client? I would even pay a small monthly fee in order to use this service!

4 Responses to “Web 2.0 E-Mail Client”

  1. on 17 Mar 2008 at 12:32 pm   Phil Harnish

    Are you serious? Gmail imports all my mail (3 accounts + gmail itself). I switched to “the cloud” a long time ago and haven’t looked back.

    That said, no I don’t know of anything which implements all the various email protocols completely. However, on this point I still blindly support whatever portion of functionality the gmail team thought was important ;)

  2. on 17 Mar 2008 at 12:36 pm   Logan

    Interesting, didn’t know GMail offered this. I looked into it, but they only support up to 5 additional, and use POP, which will delete all the e-mail off of my normal account. I usually don’t want to use POP because I want to keep information in the cloud, but if it’s going from one cloud to another…

  3. on 17 Mar 2008 at 11:42 pm   Luke Hoersten

    Gmail offers IMAP as well. You should def look into it. I’m surprised you haven’t!

  4. on 18 Mar 2008 at 4:39 pm   Logan

    @Luke, GMail offers you to access your mail using IMAP (which I use heavily), but not access another non-gmail account with IMAP.