So your software product startup ran out of money and their are no big accounts or bridge funding in sight. Have you considered Open Sourcing your product and continuing as a professional services company. You don't need to die. Just a passing thought I had. Surely your enterprise customers don't mind continuing to pay you after you opensourced your product right?

Atleast one major free hosted e-mail provider(read Gmail) which now provides POP downloads from a specific date and the option to move your e-mail into the big e-mail folder for "All e-mail" cares about allowing e-mail consolidation at a hosted location. It is really nice to see the e-mails sent through SMTP ending up in "Sent Items" in Gmail.

How difficult is it for their competitors to provide an outbound e-mail archiving. Since most of the people who use POP/IMAP also tend to use same ISP's SMTP for sending out e-mail.

On an un-related note a lot of clueless/mean ISPs actually block outbound port 25 as a part of their offerings so maybe all hosted providers should make it a point to accept e-mail at atleast one higher port other than port 25.

Whatever happened to Startup ideas 1-9.
I noticed there is a startup space available for free resume searching service for employers without paying a hefty rental to the current job search sites. Targeted ads over this and premium services and a few candidates who decide that shared reverse billing for approving who gets to see their resumes can be interesting business models.
Candidates for uploading resumes can be pitched "Earn by submitting your resume and choose who sees your resume's contact info". And make it easy to upload a resume in any format and parse it at server side instead of making it freaking difficult for candidates filling up pages full of forms.
And extend the deep job search engines which crawl job listings on Internet to be complemented with resume crawlers.
Technology to use
Ruby on Rails
Amazon S3 for storage and retrieval
Bootup Time: 2-3 months

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