May 2008: Mailbucket is struggling on its current hosting infrastructure (a virtual machine with the excellent Bytemark). If Mailbucket is useful to you, and you can afford a small donation, this will help me improve and maintain the service. Thank you!

Instructions // To do // Colophon

MailBucket is an experiment in alternative methods of email management. For now its only feature is a public email-to-RSS gateway: forward your email to slurp@mailbucket.org and have your news reader pick it up at mailbucket.org/slurp.xml (where you choose slurp, having checked that it's not already in use).

The service is probably most useful to those who lurk on high-traffic mailing lists, but it could also be used as a rudimentary bridge between applications, with email as the transfer protocol.

The generated RSS feeds are valid and compressed (if your client supports compressed content); they are also public and impermanent, which may be a disadvantage for you.

Existing lists include:
xml-dev
syncato-general
cf-talk
ruby-talk
cocoa-dev
go problems

2003/10/2:
MailBucket is now protected by SpamAssassin as well as a 'mark as spam' feature, available at the end of each item.

2003/10/9:
The ten recent posts from each named feed are additionally rendered in HTML at mailbucket.org/simple/feed_name - e.g. mailbucket.org/simple/xml-dev

2003/10/13:
Fixed a bug in parsing messages about CDATA sections. Added automatic linkification of http and ftp URLs.