Gmail Adds Atom Feeds
Gmail has added Atom web feeds, a format that's akin to RSS. The feeds include a summary of each new message in your Google email. See screen grabs. In addition, the service rolled out a more robust contact interface that nicely lists all your contacts the related messages that live in your archive as well as the ability to forward your messages to any other email account.
UPDATED 10/5: Gmail announced new features, but Atom feeds were not listed. However they are still functional using Firefox Livemarks, provided you are logged in to your account.
I have the link, but I can't get it in my aggregator as my aggregator has seperate session cookies I think.
Posted by: thom | Monday, October 04, 2004 at 09:12 AM
As one of your trackbacks notes, it's not universal yet, I for one don't see it yet.
Posted by: Olivier Travers | Monday, October 04, 2004 at 10:10 AM
great thing. looking forward to it. didn't show up on my account yet.
Posted by: guruz | Monday, October 04, 2004 at 10:20 AM
It requires authentication. It works beautifully in Firefox. Here's more info.
Posted by: Steve Rubel | Monday, October 04, 2004 at 10:22 AM
Unfortunately, most aggregators don't support Web forms base authentication. I don't have this roll-out yet, does anybody know if it supports HTTP Auth, like Basic Authentication or similar?
Posted by: Randy Charles Morin | Monday, October 04, 2004 at 10:41 AM
Its not on my accounts yet either...
Posted by: Duncan | Monday, October 04, 2004 at 12:29 PM
The URL for the feed is https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom - it seems to work from a browser if you are authenticated with a GMail session. If you logout from GMail, it will pop the HTTP auth dialog but it's not taking my gmail credentials. Since RSS aggregators don't generally support session authentication, this makes it kind of a non starter. It seems like it might be half deployed - it's was not yet listed under the "New Features!" when I checked.
Posted by: Barnaby James | Monday, October 04, 2004 at 01:01 PM
nice thing. but sorry don't get it yet in my box. But interested !!
Posted by: Maruf | Monday, October 04, 2004 at 01:07 PM
Interesting. I had the atom feed link as of 11 a.m. Pacific Time. I just checked my Inbox and it's gone.
Posted by: William Morris | Monday, October 04, 2004 at 04:12 PM
It was pulled from mine too!
Posted by: Steve Rubel | Monday, October 04, 2004 at 04:16 PM
It tooks fifteen minutes to find the URL to the feed (since my account doesn't show the Atom logo), and I've successfully subscribed to it as a live bookmark in Firefox. Thanks!
Posted by: Richard Soderberg | Monday, October 04, 2004 at 07:49 PM
And also I had a Atom button, but they have removed it.
Posted by: Thijs | Tuesday, October 05, 2004 at 12:05 PM
My Gmail account also no longer has the ATOM button on it. However, I left the feed subscribed in my aggregator (the URL is https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom) and it is now working! Your aggregator needs to support HTTPS and HTTP auth for this to work.
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