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Thanks for this, will read up on AIR when I get some time. The thing that initially puts me off is the idea of an “Adobe Runtime”. It conjures up images of a slow-beast of a system, based on my experiences with other Adobe products like Reader and Photoshop.

There is a Yahoo! Mail API (http://developer.yahoo.com/mail/), but because of the Application ID restrictions, it is not suitable for distributed desktop apps. So, our application is going to act like a user-agent and use standard HTTP GET and POST requests to interface with the mail functions.

Probably the best place would be the official URL…

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/

I have been playing around with it since the alpha release. No need to learn new languages, as it uses existing technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript, Actionscript etc). You can interface with the runtime from Javascript, so for example, you can read / write files to the system.

I would look at the showcase to see what has been done, and by who.

In your case, if you are wanting to interface with Yahoo Mail, then you should be able to make a SMTP Client using the Socket class.

Does Yahoo have an API?

http://labs.adobe.com/showcase/air/

This is going to be an unofficial app, so I’m free to use whatever technology suits. I’ve not checked out AIR at all, so perhaps you could advise on some URL’s that have a good overview of it?

Or is this going to be an actual Yahoo official application? In which case you wouldn’t want the Adobe name on it.