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Get an RSS Feed for Gmail Emails

If you are on Gmail, you can easily read you email messages in a news reader like FeedDemon as an RSS feed.

The RSS feed of your Gmail Inbox can be found at the following location:

https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom

When you subscribe to the Gmail RSS feed in a newsreader like FeedDemon, it will ask for your Gmail / Google account credentials before completing the subscription process.

Google Reader doesn’t support authenticated feeds at this time.

In case your feed reader doesn’t support regular authorization, you may add the Gmail username and password in the Feed URL itself just like the FTP syntax.

Your new Gmail feed URL with the user / password will look something like this:

http://gmailusername:password@gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom/

The RSS feed will only display unread email items from your Gmail Inbox so if your Gmail RSS feed is showing up as blank in a newsreader, that’s not a problem because you probably don’t have any unread message in the account.

While Google allows you to read all your unread Gmail messages in any RSS reader that supports authentication, such a feature in not available in Yahoo Mail by default.

Am not sure if these RSS feeds for email can make anyone feel more productive but if you are on Yahoo! Mail and need to read your new email messages via an RSS feed, check out Ymail Feed.

Yahoo! Mail feed is a new Google App Engine powered service that lets you create an RSS feed of all the unread email items in the Yahoo! inbox. Unlike the Gmail RSS feed, feeds created by YMail Feed don’t require authentication so you can pretty much subscribe to them in any news aggregator including Google Reader or the Web clips in Gmail. Read more…