--- title: "Newsletter reader with a private inbox address | Keep" description: "Read newsletters outside your email. Subscribe with a private Keep address and each issue becomes a readable, searchable Markdown item. Included with Personal." canonical: "https://keep.md/features/newsletter-reader" language: "en" --- # Read newsletters outside your inbox. Keep gives you a private email address. Subscribe with it, or forward messages to it, and each issue becomes a clean Markdown item you can read, search, and highlight alongside everything else you saved. [Create a free account](https://app.keep.md/signup?utm_source=keep.md&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=features-newsletter-reader) The private inbox and forwarded email processing are included with Personal for $10/month. 01. ## Newsletters arrive as readable articles. The Email section shows what arrived and what Keep did with it. Confirm a new subscription in one step, then open any saved issue as Markdown. **Keep address:** k-7f3a9c@in.keep.md **Pending confirmation:** The Slow Product Letter · Confirm your subscription. Confirmation link detected · Received 2 minutes ago. ### Recent messages - Harbor Weekly · Issue 84: The case for boring infrastructure · Today, 07:02 · Saved - Lena Okafor · Fwd: Notes from the pricing workshop · Yesterday, 18:40 · Saved (Forwarding wrapper removed) - Harbor Weekly · Issue 84: The case for boring infrastructure · Yesterday, 07:01 · Skipped (Duplicate delivery) - Fieldnote · Your receipt for September · 1 Sep, 09:15 · Skipped (Transactional message) ### Issue 84: The case for boring infrastructure Harbor Weekly · Saved today, 07:02 \# The case for boring infrastructure Every few years a team I know rebuilds its deployment pipeline. The old one worked. Nobody could explain it any more, and that was reason enough. \## What boring buys you Boring infrastructure is infrastructure a new hire can reason about in their first week. It has fewer moving parts than the diagram suggests, and the parts it has are the ones everyone else uses too. \- Fewer surprises at 3am \- Answers on the first page of search results \- Upgrades that are someone else’s job \## What it costs You give up the feeling of a bespoke system. In exchange you get to spend your novelty budget on the product, which is the only place customers will ever notice it. [Read the email inbox docs](https://keep.md/docs/email) 02. ## Create your address and subscribe with it. Open Settings → Sources → Email to create your address. Use it wherever you would normally enter your email to subscribe. 1. **Create your Keep address.** Each account has one active inbox address. It starts with k- and ends with @in.keep.md. Copy it from the Email section. 2. **Subscribe or forward.** Enter the address on a newsletter site, or forward any message to it. For Gmail, add a forwarding rule for the senders you want to keep. 3. **Confirm the subscription.** Keep detects confirmation emails and shows the link, code, or provider action in the Email section. Select Confirm to finish. [Read the setup steps](https://keep.md/docs/email) 03. ## Mail that deserves better than an inbox. Keep saves the subject, sender, message body, and links as Markdown. Transactional messages and duplicate deliveries can be skipped. 1. ### Newsletters you actually read Move the writers you follow out of your inbox and into a reading list that does not compete with work email. 2. ### Substack and paid publications Subscribe with your Keep address. Keep shows the six-digit code or sign-in link when Substack needs it. 3. ### Forwarded notes and threads Forward a message worth keeping. Keep removes the forwarding wrapper and saves the original message body. 04. ## Every issue stays searchable. A saved email is an item like any other. Search it, highlight it, link it to a note, and open it from the CLI, API, or a connected AI client. [**Inspect what arrived**The Email section lists recent messages with their processing status, linked item, rendered HTML, and detected links.](https://keep.md/docs/email#inspect-recent-email)[**Search past issues**Find the issue that mentioned a tool or an idea by searching across every newsletter you kept.](https://keep.md/docs/search)[**Highlight and link to notes**Highlight a paragraph while reading and attach it to a Markdown note with the issue kept as the source.](https://keep.md/docs/notes)[**Read newsletters from an AI agent**Saved email items work with the CLI, API, and MCP, so a connected agent can search and quote them.](https://keep.md/docs/mcp) 05. ## Questions about the newsletter inbox. ### Do I get a separate email address? Yes. Each account has one active address that starts with k- and ends with @in.keep.md. Create it in Settings → Sources → Email. ### How do I confirm a newsletter subscription? Open the Email section, find the pending confirmation, and select Confirm. Keep can show a confirmation link, a verification code, or an action that opens the provider site. Dismiss a confirmation you do not recognise. ### Can I forward mail from Gmail automatically? Yes. Add your Keep address in Gmail’s Forwarding settings, confirm it from the message Keep receives, then create a filter that forwards the senders you want. ### What does Keep save from an email? The subject, sender, message body, and links. HTML is converted to Markdown. Common transactional messages and duplicate deliveries can be skipped. ### Can I reply to newsletters from Keep? No. The inbox address only receives mail. Reply from your normal email account. ### Can I try the inbox on Starter? You can create a Starter account for free. The private inbox requires Personal, which costs $10/month. 06. ## Related ways to follow a source. [**RSS reader**Follow a publication as a feed when it offers one, with each entry saved as Markdown.](https://keep.md/features/rss-reader)[**Read later**Save articles, threads, newsletters, and PDFs in one clean reading list.](https://keep.md/uses/reading) ## Give your newsletters a better place to land. Create a free account, then add Personal for $10/month to get a private inbox address and read every issue as Markdown. [Create a free account](https://app.keep.md/signup?utm_source=keep.md&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=features-newsletter-reader) [Read the email docs](https://keep.md/docs/email)