Email-2-RSS

I’ve actually been thinking of cobbling together a similar service that I could use to aggregate all of my various POP3 and Web-based email accounts as RSS feeds, which I could then read via NewsGator in Outlook.

I know- I know this sounds convoluted, but this idea was basically spurred because POP3, IMAP and many web-based mail services have been blocked via the corporate firewall here where I work, which has been instituted because of the rash email-based worms and of course the abundance of spam.

However, not that I want to counter corporate policy; I was thinking that this would be niche service for some (like me!)

Of course it would be ideal to include spam and virus filtering, but I’m getting a head of myself. Although, I believe most of what’s required to do this is already out there in some for or another (e.g. Zoë). Or perhaps it’s just a simple add-on to one of the many OSS Web-based Mail clients?

I think it’s worth more investigation…