Is receiving email with SQL Server dead?

I find no way to receive email with Database Mail. Is this accurate?
And why was this done?
-KJHi
DB Mail is SMTP based, so that is to send mail.
There is no IMAP/POP3 support in SQL Server 2005.
As far as I am concerned, mail is dead, web services are here to stay.
Regards
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Mike Epprecht, Microsoft SQL Server MVP
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>I find no way to receive email with Database Mail. Is this accurate?
> And why was this done?
> -KJ
>|||I find in msdb.dbo.sysmail_servertype, there are columns called
is_incoming and is_outgoing. What do you make of that?