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Why would anyone want to open a local file with a ftp tool.
Experienced web developers don't edit files on the server but keep their files on a local machine and upload them to a server from there.
If you only have the copy on the server, what happens when the server crashes, messes up, gets hacked or you yourself delete a file from the server by accident - answer, you have to create the file again!
The email registration issue is not an issue at all really as again, most serious users of FTP would have a domain and email setup of their own and would not really have a need for the likes of Googlemail.