Syndicate Your Gmail Inbox — October 26, 2007
Last week Engadget, TechCrunch and many other tech sites reported Gmail going IMAP. That’s a big deal for anyone who prefers to have control over their email messages. But for a long time the Gmail inbox was available as an RSS feed. Several people blogged about this feature on their sites soon after discovering it. But now you don’t have to follow the old School method of manifesting credentials on the RSS URI anymore. It’s as easy as subscribing to any other RSS feed out there. All you need in an RSS aware web browser and an email client. Here’s how to do it.
- Log on to your Gmail account.
- An RSS icon appears on the address bar. (This screenshot is given in Mozilla Thunderbird)
- Select ‘Add Gmail Atom Feed as Live Bookmark’ from the context menu.
- Copy the URL from the address bar.
- Go to your email client and subscribe to the URL copied in step 4.
For Mozilla Thunderbird, right-click on News & Blogs and select ‘Subscribe’ from the context menu.
- You will be prompted for the user name and password for your Gmail account.
- That’s it! Now you are ready to receive new mail notifications via RSS.