[yucca]

Using Mail (and by extension certain web-based mail services that support IMAP or POP) to automate status reporting is an interesting idea. I know this sort of workflow is possible with MS Project and Outlook/Exchange, but getting it to work when you don't control all the pieces seems like a daunting task to me.

That said, it would be very handy for handing off tasks to a foreign planning system. Say I use OF at home, and want to hand some tasks off to my Windows-based planning system at work. Now that I think about it, getting stuff out might not be that difficult; but automating returning e-mail seems much more difficult.