Microsoft's Outlook 2003 gives users the ability to use Search Folders. Essentially this feature allows users to scan their incoming email using specific criteria they provide. Simply a handy feature without question. I thought I'd borrow from this idea, though, and hook up Gmail to filter out some specific downloads I regularly track on various BitTorrent websites. So here we go.

First, find a few good RSS feeds for BitTorrent downloads. I'm using a feed each from Mininova.org, Rokanova.org, and NewTorrents.info.

Next, go and visit the free RSS-to-email service RssFwd and subscribe to your chosen feed(s).

Lastly, log on to your Gmail account and create the appropriate label(s) and filter(s).

Hopefully with this information you can get Gmail really working for you. I mean why bother, for example, searching through literally hundreds of potential download items when Gmail can do all the sorting' And of course you'll hardly run out of storage space either.

One final step might be to subscribe to your Gmail account's incoming 'Downloads' mail feed in your favourite news aggregator. There are many to choose from.

written by Florin C.