The death of e-mail - "Email is increasingly for old people, as kids turn to IM etc." 19 years ago
I would like to abandon "email" as a metaphor. Its not like the -protocols- are going anywhere, but I've thought before of routing all my email (= server, Gmail, Y!mail, and college FirstClass) to IM. That would centralize all my "messages", and make it easier to check all my accounts on my cell. IMs are already logged and stored if I'm offline.
I just did a cursory search, and it doesn't seem there's a way to do it directly in iChat or Adium. It'd probably be easiest to do it through Jabber. I don't know enough about XMPP though... Anyone have an idea how to go about this?