Using GMail as an RSS Feed Reader

If you're enough of a geek to know your way around Perl and be able to install a Perl progam, you might want to check out GMailRSS, a series of scripts that translate incoming RSS feeds into e-mail and then send them, properly labeled, to your GMail account. The scripts are at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~karu/gmailrss .

Here's how the scripts are described on the page:

# I fetch RSS feeds periodically, convert each item in each feed into an email, with the feed name in the Subject line and send it to my GMail address. This job is done by the rss2mail script.
# Create a label in GMail corresponding to each RSS feed.
# Create a filter corresponding to each RSS feed, that reads the subject line and appropriately applies the label.

This set of scripts will actually work with any e-mail address, but the programmer is emphasizing e-mail because of its filtering ability and large capacity.

I haven't tried this yet, and you will need to be fairly geeky to install it.

Update -- Thanks to intrepid ResearchBuzz reader WD, there's now a Windows-compatible download with some Windows-specific mods at the URL above.

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