I see the benefits of moving to a forum and could really get to love the searching, archiving, and thread metadata that this place offers over Google Groups, but one feature I'm pining after is the mailing list interface.

I'm used to having my own copy of the list archives, being able to scan through topics offline, track what I've read, and read from and write to the list from my mail editor of choice. I would love to be able to get the full text of every message post by email and be able to respond from my forum account via email (from an address registered on my Zoho account). Is this a feature that exists or that has a chance of being implemented, or should I suck it up?