I need to read mail from gmail on my site. We're creating a project for my software engineering class, in ASP.NET or Java (we haven't decided on the technology yet) and it is basically a forum not too different from StackOverflow. Only thing is, it's going to be on the institute's LAN. Now they don't let us access any website but you can access Gmail. Now my idea was that if you're sitting at home and you think of a reply to a post, you send an email to a certain account (say [email protected]). When there's a new mail in [email protected], we get it from the account and post the reply automatically according to the username and thread. Now this is how what I'm thinking: The user will send the email from home which contains information about which thread he's posting to, his username, the posters username (so we don't cause too much confusion, obviously he won't remember the whole title of the thread), and the body of the reply. We get that information, and automatically post it into the thread. And since we already can implement email notifications, he will get a reply in HIS inbox when the thread is updated. Basically, he will communicate with the post via email. It's a work around to the network restrictions in class. What do you think? Can you help me?