I don't know if I'd want Gmail and RSS to join up too much. We don't allow web-based mail connections where I work, but I can still at least read RSS feeds through Google Reader. Combining the two would eliminate both from my days.

At home on my main laptop I also use Thunderbird to check mail from various services, especially since they are secure links these days. But I feel ya, I want the bulk of my email accessible to me remotely. One nice thing about Thunderbird Gmail (not sure about the others) but I could file away all my email on Gmail itself, and Thunderbird manages it's own store, so I kinda have it in two places if I really wanted it. I've been wanting to get a home webmail set up to do all of this for me (SquirrelMail mostl likely).

I also dig that I can send mp3s to other people through Gmail…even if they don't have a Gmail account. I have a dummy account set up that I can give out the password to, to which I send mp3s from my own gmail account. =)

For all the ways mail has improved over the years, I still just feel that unless we get Gmail, et. al. to adopt widespread PGP, email still just needs to die and give way to something newer, like IM as a communication method.

I don’t know if I’d want Gmail and RSS to join up too much. We don’t allow web-based mail connections where I work, but I can still at least read RSS feeds through Google Reader. Combining the two would eliminate both from my days.

At home on my main laptop I also use Thunderbird to check mail from various services, especially since they are secure links these days. But I feel ya, I want the bulk of my email accessible to me remotely. One nice thing about Thunderbird + Gmail (not sure about the others) but I could file away all my email on Gmail itself, and Thunderbird manages it’s own store, so I kinda have it in two places if I really wanted it. I’ve been wanting to get a home webmail set up to do all of this for me (SquirrelMail mostl likely).

I also dig that I can send mp3s to other people through Gmail…even if they don’t have a Gmail account. I have a dummy account set up that I can give out the password to, to which I send mp3s from my own gmail account. =)

For all the ways mail has improved over the years, I still just feel that unless we get Gmail, et. al. to adopt widespread PGP, email still just needs to die and give way to something newer, like IM as a communication method.

Storage
Yahoo! – 2GB
Google – 2.9GB
Live Hotmail – 5GB

Only Yahoo! and Google provide inline chat and only Yahoo! provides inline RSS feeds.

webmail on a phone? that’s sort of a different beast entirely – i’ve never even seen the mobile versions of those sites (heck, i don’t even have a cell phone)… i tend to think side by side email and rss on a cellphone screen is just not going to work though…