To be honest, I think the way to go about implementing this would be to either use the basic HTML version of the web page (which seems to change rarely) or to b

To be honest, I think the way to go about implementing this would be to either use the basic HTML version of the web page (which seems to change rarely) or to build a native app and communicate with something like POP. This solution, as nice as it is, is really quite flakey. In the same breath, I can really recommend switching to Thunderbird. I run all my emails, RSS feeds and instant messaging through it all whilst being able to keep local backups of this valuable data.