Email Load - Potential GF Add-on?

Matt Mullenweg has written the following blog post, Email Load http://ma.tt/2010/09/email-load/ :

I added a new feature to the contact page that shows you how high (or low) my email queues are, which update once a minute. If the levels are lower, it probably means I’ll get back to your sooner.

You can see it in action on his contact page:

http://ma.tt/contact/

This idea has the potential to be a good add-on for GF, particularly if it more effectively conveyed the basic idea - that you are busy and might not be able to reply promptly - by rendering the numbers as a chart, using colors to denote how overheated each section is.

I particularly like the fact that it indicates priority but I wonder if using the phrase "Low priority" might seem dismissive to someone who is anxious about whether or not you will reply to them. Might be better to number High Priority or Urgent emails, then Everything Else.

Matt's version pulls the numbers from his email server but, as a GF add-on, it would have truly mass appeal if it could pull the same sort of info from a specified GMail or Google Apps account. It would be particularly good if it could hook into Google's superb new Priority Inbox feature.

I suspect, but don't have any hard numbers, that most people technical enough to deploy contact forms would tend to use Gmail/Google Apps rather than any other webmail service and certainly more use webmail these days than run their own IMAP servers. My impression that Gmail is the most popular is simply based upon the fact that I see a lot of Gmail addresses being used within the WordPress world and, anecdotally, most people with own-domain email addresses tend to use Google Apps.

Gmail/Google Apps must have an API that allows details such as Inbox counts to be fetched because there are so many Firefox and Chrome extensions that do that. Obviously, the contact form owner would need to provide both his Google username and password for such requests. It is also possible that other popular webmail services, such as Yahoo, have similar functionality, allowing the audience for such an add-on to be extended, but, as I say, I suspect that Gmail/Google Apps would be a sizeable majority anyway.

Contact forms are such a basic things, GF does so much more, but a contact form is probably it's most frequent use, particularly among new customers; being able to add such clever functionality would certainly enhance the initial impression that GF makes upon them.