Some of the times, the mails I receive are usually meant to be scanned and no detailed reading or replying may be necessary. But actually logging in everytime to the inbox to view such mails individually is an amazing waste of time. Also, viewing these mails in a email client like Outlook or Thunderbird would also mean a waste of time.

The easiest option to scan through articles or emails in this case is by making it a feed and reading them in your feedreader. It is because of the ease in reading blog posts, that I use Feedreaders for subscribing to most of my favorite blogs. Doing a similar thing for your emails can drastically reduce time in going through a bunch of them.

Mail Bucket offers such a simple and fast to implement service for your emails. And best of all, it is free to setup and use. There are 2 ways to use this service.

• Redirect your mail from one of your email addresses
• Setup a new email ID at Mail Bucket for this purpose

The process is very simple and all you need to do is

• If redirecting, simply redirect your mails to any email ID of your choice @mailbucket.org
• Even if you are setting up a new ID at mailbucket, the step is the same
• Le’s assume that the email ID is mymail@mailbucket.org
• All the mails received at the ID (at Mail Bucket) can be obtained as an XML Feed at the address http://www.mailbucket.org/mymail.xml

All you need to is subscribe to the feed at that address using any feedreader and you’ll get regular updates as usual. Also, you can get a HTML version of the feed by visiting the address http://www.mailbucket.org/simple/mymail

Before forwarding to a email ID at Mail Bucket, be sure to check that no other mail is being forwarded there. You can do that by visiting the feed address before forwarding the mail. If the page is empty, go ahead and set it up.

Redirecting is not the only option. You can simply send a new mail from any of your accounts and it will automatically appear as part of the feed.

The disadvantage with Mail Bucket is that all the feeds are publicly viewable and hence your mails will not have any security. So, make sure that you don’t redirect mails from a personal or professional ID to here. However, the address from which the mail was sent will not be visible in the feed.

Do let me know if you found this service interesting. Thanks for reading!

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