If somehow you don’t like GMail Notifier (and you don’t install Google Desktop 2 as well), there’s another alternative software named XM2Rss. xm2Rss has the same purpose. It let’s a user of Gmail check their mail without having to be logged in through their web browser. Again, like GMail Notifier, xm2Rss also stays on the tray bar and periodically check GMail for a new email. If there is a new one, the user can then click on the tab that tells them how many new messages they have and it will automatically log them into their Gmail account.

What make xm2Rss different is that it’s not just a notifier program, it’s also a RSS feed that is freely available to any user who wishes to use it. The author mentioned that xm2Rss is based on the original gmail2Rss script developed by muadib.blogspot.com which has been abandoned last year.

The xm2Rss script allows the developer or user to pass in their username and password and the script generates a dynamic RSS XML sheet containing information about their account, such as: Amount of new messages, number of total messages, amount of space used, and more.

Xm2Rss is a free software.

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