Not trying to be awkward or such, but what exactly is the hype about gmail all about? I mean, it's YAFMS[1]...?
The press banged on about "1 gigabyte" storage, but that's really uninteresting.
What's interesting is the all-messages-in-one-inbox paradigm, with multiple views across that single heap, rather than the separate-message-folders paradigm that is in current usage.
But then again, Opera software's M2 mail client was doing that well before gmail came along. And I'm sure there were another couple of examples around the net, too.
Ultimately, gmail isn't that interesting - it's online-only, which means you can't keep local/offline copies. Go see http://fastmail.fm for free imap storage :-)
-jim
