Possible to incorporate "push email" into a web app?

Question

I was reading about this new feature in Gmail called push email which seems to be designed with smart phones in mind.

But I wonder if it would be possible to incorporate this into a web app.

So for example, let's say I allow Gmail to push email to a particular HTML form and then I have my web app process the emails.

Would that make sense?

Answer 1

I'd expect the way to go would to have an IMAP client run on your web server and your web app handle the incoming mail.