Every now and then we’re going to use this blog to post tips that email users on our system might find useful. Today, we’re going to talk about RSS and how we provide users with the ability to subscribe to blogs and RSS feeds through webmail, and how users can set those feeds to be delivered to the inbox and thus downloaded via POP3 to desktop email software (e.g., MS Outlook or Thunderbird) or wireless devices (e.g., Blackberry, Treo).

If you’d like to subscribe to blogs and RSS feeds through webmail, just follow these steps:

1. Log in to webmail.

2. In the left menu, click the “RSS Feeds� folder.

3. Click the “Add Feed� button.

4. Paste the feed’s URL into the “Paste URL of feed� box. (Sometimes it can be difficult to find a site’s RSS feed. Some sites will display a small “RSS� icon, and others will use a symbol or text. Once you find it, just right-click the icon and copy/paste the associated URL.)

5. Click the “Confirm� button.

6. Click the “Subscribe� button. The feed will appear in your feed list.

Now you can just click the RSS Feeds folder and then click the feed name. You’ll know when a new post has arrived because the “RSS Feeds� folder name will appear in bold text—indicating that a new post is waiting for you.

If you’d like to forward your feeds to the inbox and download them via POP3 to your email software of choice, then follow these steps:

7. Click the “Account Options� link.

8. Click the “RSS Feed Preferences� link.

9. In the POP3 Support section, click the “Yes� button to redirect all feeds to the Inbox.

10. Click the “Save Changes� button.

Now, whenever a feed publishes a new post, it will arrive in your Inbox—just like an email message. You can then set up mail filter rules if you’d like them to automatically be filed in a specific folder—again, just like other emails.

We also have instructions for how to subscribe to our blog, right here.