out there suggestion...

I have a rather large collection of webmails(on different systems) and tend 
to need a whole collection of daemons to run them all, now I was looking at 
one of them(for mail.com) and I remembered that since the hotmail and yahoo 
rebuilds, a lot of work was going on.  Now I know the other 
project(pywebmail) doesn't use the same language as gotmail(perl) but I 
thought it was interesting it used xml for storing webmail-server 
behaviour...  Could some kind of collaborative effort, perhaps using those 
same xml files, be built, so that there is less duplication of effort when 
hotmail et al decide to make our lives difficult?

I've used fetchyahoo, gotmail, mrpostman, hotwayd, web2pop and pywebmail(at 
least) so far, and I did notice that keeping up with the provides is 
probably the largest part of the update work.

Am I the only one who sees a great idea in this ?