http://www.evhead.com/2005/04/gmail-adds-feed-reading.asp This article is about seeing web clips in your gmail. Basically, GMail reads RSS Feeds and displays headlines above your inbox. I don't have this feature yet. I also found this: https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom Which allows you to see your gmail as an atom feed. I suppose you could use something like Thunderbird to read your e-mail with this.