For those interested in a better email client, a fellow from Nokia posted news of a new (in development) email client. The screen shots look nice enough, and hopefully with time it'll be good enough to release to the masses. No installable packages yet as it's still being worked on, but here's the page if you want to see the pretty pictures http://modest.garage.maemo.org/
Get your bridge out. Nokia and Skype are working on an app as we speak.