Maybe It could tell another arduino to wake you up or it could read your email for you and then make some sort of decision as to whether it is worth your while. Jk of course. It is pretty interesting however I don’t really feel the need to know THE SECOND that I get a new email. I’d rather just browse my email at my leisure.

Good job! I like your project, and it is about the learning experience. A simple project like this and the skills learned can lead to other more ambitious ones. I’m a geologist and am using my new Arduino to learn about circuits and programming – so success for me is getting an LED to blink! Hack a Day; keep up the good work and keep a mix of projects. I like to see the stuff I could never build but I also like the simpler stuff I can build.

He should make a binary display to count how many emails he has.

That would be much, much cooler

Well that does it, I’m getting the Arduino kit on sparkfun. So long ARM.

Humbly suggest Hackaday readers seek revenge on the evil Arduino by devising buffer overrun exploits on all ethernet-connected microcontrollers.
“POP is a simple protocol…” … leading to simple implementations which can be more readily fooled.
Quick, before they grow enough cpu to run Snort!

@obnauticus – Did you watch the video?

He said it was a “nice little Ethernet connectivity experiment with an Arduino and Ethernet Shield”.

This is the simplest way to test, and is a great starting point for larger projects.

Hey this looks so cool. What is the code you type in so that this will work?