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Originally Posted by maverick808

Create a new smart mail box and set it to display unread mail and rss messages. Then set the dock unread count to that smart folder and you're done.

Unlike selecting "show in inbox" from RSS, this won't clutter your inbox with RSS feeds.
 
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