Atleast one major free hosted e-mail provider(read Gmail) which now provides POP downloads from a specific date and the option to move your e-mail into the big e-mail folder for "All e-mail" cares about allowing e-mail consolidation at a hosted location. It is really nice to see the e-mails sent through SMTP ending up in "Sent Items" in Gmail.
How difficult is it for their competitors to provide an outbound e-mail archiving. Since most of the people who use POP/IMAP also tend to use same ISP's SMTP for sending out e-mail.
On an un-related note a lot of clueless/mean ISPs actually block outbound port 25 as a part of their offerings so maybe all hosted providers should make it a point to accept e-mail at atleast one higher port other than port 25.
Email outsourcing
I agree with you that email archiving is of upmost importance, and you've nailed it, without a backup plan, who can we trust? There are port25 smtp server options for businesses out there, so look around. I suggest an IT department gets on the phone immediately if they are experiencing some email downtime!
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