balancing / #6602

Although I agree about the functionality you request I also see the implementation side. Adding some kind of email client to streber not only be a lot of work, it would be code that is not really relevant for the core features. Even given this handler is easy to code (which I doubt), it would stay in the project forever and need additional future resources for maintaining. I really learned that additional code will lead to additional problems.
That's why we should invest the time into writing an API (which shouldn't be that hard) and write a neatly separated data wrapper in perl or python to convert e-mails into API.calls ala

<xml>
<action
 function="taskNew" 
 accountId="123"
>
  <task>
   <name>xc</name>
  </task>
<action>

Considering the current speed of development this might be a pretty distant future.