After being invited by Daryl_ to GMail, i took 15 minutes to get FUSE / libgmail / GmailFS working out of the box :)

It's quite amusing to mount a FS like this !! Even if gmail is not intended for that it rules. 

Copying one 8Mb file to the gmail-space gives me following mails in my inbox:

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I guess there is one mail per block and each mail has an attached file of BIN mime-type. Uploading this file has been quite long though (about 2 minutes), but i don't think i'll put 1Gb of mails there, so space has to be used anyway :)

Even better, notice the NTFS ad on the right:

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.. _Daryl: http://randomthoughts.vandorp.ca/WK/blog/1049?t=item