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Yep. It would depend how granular it is. I'd like to only allow access by sender domain or something like that.

However - how many people trust our email to small web hosting companies? How much better is that?

For example - many of my clients use the mailbox provided by Webfaction who I'm sure are beyond reproach but do I trust them any more than I trust a well known SASS company that integrates using the GMail API?

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Granularity is the key here.

I run a small self-tracking service (zenobase.com), and would love to let my users pull in some "metadata" from their email (e.g. the number of messages in the inbox, or the number of messages sent by hour). But I don't want my users to trust me with unrestricted access to their email.

A meta data only permission would be cool. Access to from, to, cc, date, labels, etc for all mails but no access to the actual content would be good.

You could label it "NSA access".

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