Newsgator and Email

As I alluded to in another post, I chose Newsgator because it seemed to be the only free RSS reader that will allow me to read blogs from my email as well as from the web.

There are two ways to do this in Newsgator, depending on how you access email. First, for both you will need a Newsgator Online account (free). www.newsgator.com has a tour and instructions.

If you use Outlook as your email reader, there is a custom (free) application available on the newsgator site under “Products for Individuals” called Newsgator Inbox for Outlook. You download and install this on the same computer that runs your Outlook and it will add itself into Outlook.  I tried it on Vista with Outlook 2003 and it works well.  The main advantage of using the Outlook add-in is that it provides a new menu which allows you to manage your Newsgator subscription from Outlook.

For all other email programs (Eudora, gmail, etc), or if you do not wish to install any new software, you will download emails using POP3 directly from the newsgator server and then if you don’t want them in your inbox directly, you can filter them using your email program’s filters or rules. To do this, first go to your newsgator account and click on the “settings” tab. Then click on “edit locations”, and scroll down to Newsgator Email Edition. Click on “configure”, enter the information you want, and then follow the instructions in your email program (each one will be different).

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