> I would think over the years many of us have used various free email > accounts, to name a > few, years ago, rockmail and hotmail, in recent years, > yahoo mail, and most recently > gmail, aside from desktop-based email like Outlook, then who knows in three > years or so, > what new email system would come up. Very few of them has interoperability, > probably > rockmail was bought by yahoo, hence, its email were automatically transfered > to yahoo > account or something like that (memory is getting 'rusty'). The point I'm > making is, if I can > switch to another email system now or tomorrow and bring all my emails from > one or more > email systems, I would feel so much better for maybe some tiny gem among tons > of junk > email would still be around... Having said that, commericial interest would > probably stand > in the way of standardization, actually email system using XML as its data > platform would > probably work (just off my head), am I the only idiot thinking of this?
Many of these systems already allow you to import and export mail, through standard protocols like POP3 and IMAP. That said, while this question might be relevant or interesting to CF programmers, it is certainly beyond the scope of this list, which is CF programming and related items (SQL, JS, HTML, CSS, etc). Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:316799 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
