well you could write a program to fetch from a pop3 or imap account and let the user enter in the server details and username and password for the email account. The problem is that your program will need to run outside of the rails environment - or at least be activated from outside, because you probably want it to poll the account rather than just check it when someone goes on the website.
Ruby has libraries Net::IMAP and Net::POP, which provide all the commands for retriving from accounts, but obviously you still need to write an admin console so the user can tell the application where to get things from.
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