Sources
Remail supports multiple message sources of diverse protocols, allowing users to aggregate items of interest into a single in-box. These sources include email (Lotus Notes, POP3, IMAP) and group discussion spaces (Quickplace, NNTP). Remail can also poll RSS feeds, receiving information from news sites, blogs, wikis, CVS repositories, and any other system capable of publishing updates in this standard format.

By providing a single point of notification, we allow users to live in their in-box. They can collect large volumes of information from multiple sources and are given tools to help manage, organize, and search the information. We overcome information overload by allowing users to make sources either "in-sight" or "out-of-sight". New sources can be defined on the fly, monitored, and turned on and off. For transient data sources, older documents can be automatically deleted. Searching and collecting in the Remail client allows people to probe for information across all the sources to which they have subscribed.

Within the in-box, icons can be used to distinguish messages from different sources. In addition, the notion of a persona allows us to fuse identities across sources.