Read your Gmail mails in a feed reader

Gmail never ceases to surprise me. Another cool feature found in only Gmail is the ability to subscribe to your Gmail inbox in a feed reader. Just like you read your favorite websites in a feed reader, it's possible to read your mails in a feed reader too. The feed URL of the Gmail inbox is http://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/ which shows the most recent items from your inbox. Gmail also supports feeds for individual labels http://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/labelname/.

Since the feeds require authentication, not all feed readers work with it, for instance Google Reader. Firefox Live Bookmarks work and so does Opera.





Some other feed readers that support Gmail feeds are:

Windows

BottomFeeder
FeedDemon
NewsGator
NewzCrawler
SharpReader

Mac OS X

BottomFeeder
NetNewsWire
Shrook 2

Linux

BottomFeeder


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