If security is the concern, I would develop an app that would use pop3 or Imap to access the server and then update a variable that would tell you that you have mail from within ARC.

My parts from EZ-Robot should be coming in soon, along with the parts to complete the 3D printer build that I have going on. I will be tied up for a while with these. If I get some time soon, I will do what I can to write something to handle this for Gmail. Don't hold me to it, but it could be cool. I, like Rich, get a ton of emails (about 2,000 a day) so I probably wouldn't use it for fear that the wife would kill my robot, but I could do it.

I will try to do hotmail for you. just give me a bit of time to see what would need to be done. Im not promising anything other than that I will look at building something to handle it. This weekend I might have some time.

Ive never herd of a secured rss feed :S I never use gmail at all it is one of the most unsecure email systems out there I only use hot mail I have a gmail account but never use it and never add it to any of my stuff as it gets all my stuff if I do photos vids every thing and posts it for all to see and there was no way to set it so it would not do that

I made that mistake before lol

What makes you say gmail is less secure than hotmail?

Just an FYI, in the past I have managed to access more hotmail accounts without knowing the password than I have anything else (I have a past, I wasn't always a good guy... nothing I'm proud of though).

Gmail/google is pretty damn secure, especially these days.

I will try to do hotmail for you. just give me a bit of time to see what would need to be done. Im not promising anything other than that I will look at building something to handle it. This weekend I might have some time.

FYI secure rss feed urls look something like http://username:[email protected]/tasks/rss.php

If you are interested in secure or authenticated rss feeds google brings up a lot of information about them.

However, that probably isn't the best method for getting your robot to say "you have a new email". Running an app which will periodically check the server and report the info to ARC is your better option.

But if it is just a notification there are apps which will check hotmail and fetch the emails/notify you on new emails. Hotmail uses pop3 (pop3.live.com), just make sure your email client doesn't remove the email from the server on download if you don't want it to.

@Rich its not the account getting hacked that is the problem with gmail if you have it on a cell or other devise and you take a photo gmail instantly shares that photo with everyone and there is no way to stop it onless you remove the gmail account from the device afew months ago that was a MAGER problem for me and the only way I could stop it was to remove the gmail account from my cell That's what gmail is about .... the sharing of info they may have changed it but after my experience with it I will never trust it

@D.cochran I would really appreciate you looking into that for me when you have time thank you

Dude, learn to read instructions and guides. You can turn off the photo sharing. You can turn on and off pretty much everything.

I have a google account set up on my phone, I have my photos automatically upload to my photos (which I had to enable as it was disabled as default). These photos are not shared with anyone unless I enable public sharing.

This is how it has always been. I was one of the first to have a gmail account back before they started the invite only gmail, which was before the currently free for anyone gmail account. I had android phones since before they were android (google phone). Your experience with google seems to be due to failure to read instructions to be honest.

@Wolfie,

Sharing Photos through Google+ has nothing to do with Gmail other than that they both use a Google account, and photos are not shared automatically unless you tell it to do so. They are saved to Google+ and you can choose to share them, and this feature is very easy to turn off.

I think you are confused.

Alan