After a long long break filled with lots of things which were
interesting (or annoying) to me but mostly boring to you, I've finally
gotten around to fixing what will be named gmail2rss, hereafter.
What is it ? A PHP script which generates a RSS feed of your Gmail inbox.
I've discussed the possibility of doing something like this earlier and I actually got around to releasing a couple of versions, but the thesis got in the way of further work.
Why ? Because while there are other tools such as GTray and even Google's own GMail notifier,
they all have one problem for me. I don't like too many apps occupying
systray real estate. I already have a RSS reader, so it makes more
sense to get GMail notifications on that.
What's new ? In a word: nothing. 0.2 was broken, produced
badly formed RDF and had other problems because I used some horrendous
regex hacks to scrape the Gmail page. 0.3 just fixes all of those, at
the expense of introducing another dependency, libgmail (nice work and thanks again, YingHung). I've tested 0.3 output on both Sage and FeedReader and it seems to work ok.