Is it possible to get email over JSON?

Question

It would be cool if I could retrieve gmail or some other mail service via JSON. Is there any JSON enabled service that allows this?

Answer 1

It depends if the mail service in question provides an API.

• Yahoo: http://developer.yahoo.com/mail/
• Gmail: http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/faq.html
• Aol: http://dev.aol.com/api/openmail

Otherwise you'd have to develop your own application which would consume the data from the mail service and publish it as JSON