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> I have a script which monitors RSS feeds and turns them into emails. I totally keep meaning to do this. Glad I'm not the only one with this crazy preference!
https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap
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Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
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Re: Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
#22I prefer to use my email clients to read my news. Means I don't have to run an additional application. I have a script which monitors RSS feeds and turns them into emails. I filter them into a "News" mail folder. I run K-9 Mail, Mutt and Webmail depending on what device I'm using. Thanks to IMAP my "news readers" stay in sync due to the "\Seen" IMAP flag, and the ability to delete messages. Thanks to IMAP PUSH I don'…
You can use http://blogtrottr.com/ to do this too
Re: Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
#23I prefer to use my email clients to read my news. Means I don't have to run an additional application. I have a script which monitors RSS feeds and turns them into emails. I filter them into a "News" mail folder. I run K-9 Mail, Mutt and Webmail depending on what device I'm using. Thanks to IMAP my "news readers" stay in sync due to the "\Seen" IMAP flag, and the ability to delete messages. Thanks to IMAP PUSH I don'…
I first used rss2email[1], moved on to writing my own initially as a WP plugin (using the blogroll links to pull from); it gradually evolved into a standalone python thing to support mf2[2] feeds.
I do prefer RSS entries as email entries, therefore newletters and RSS feeds are more or less the same to me.
[1]: http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/ [2]: http://microformats.org/wiki/h-feed
Re: Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
#24I think we are moving towards a descentralized Internet. The RSS feed needs a central server, the newsletter can be broadcasted and then forwarded peer to peer. I'd argue the opposite then: save the newsletter, just maybe evolve it into something better (maybe with schema email??)
Sounds like Usenet :) RSS is probably easier to layer on top of those new fangled HTTP-over-P2P networks like IPFS. Heck, I remember proposals for combining RSS and BitTorrent, so an RSS feed could be spread via BitTorrent, with incremental updates being applied, and with each entry containing BitTorrent magnet links. This was proposed as a distributed way to provide podcasts ("podcatching"). Not sure if it got imple…
Usenet is, unfortunately, ancient and arcane enough that a vast amount of the the current veteran dev people never ever heard of it. It's an awesome thing, even though it has it's capacity limits, and it really should be revived ( and not the way it is at the moment, as a torrent replacement ).
Re: Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
#25It's funny, last week I actually looked for the opposite! I don't use RSS and don't have a reader (since google dropped theirs) and so when I find blogs that interest me, I want to be able to subscribe via emails. Then I just add the updates I receive in the correct folder/tag and go back to read whatever I want, whenevr.
I do have an RSS reader, but it has become such a chore to keep up with it that I mostly don't bother. Picking the best content providers and getting a handful of emails a week from them is better than the cesspool of 6000 unread items that confronts me when I pull up RSS.
Re: Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
#26Pretty sure publishers prefer newsletters because they get opened more than an RSS feed based on a few conversations I've had.
Re: Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
#27I'm so glad that someone built this. I have the same use case as the author where I just don't want newsletters to read, but that are time insensitive, intermingled with communication to people in my inbox. I'm excited to try this approach. I'd be interested to see what other solutions people have come up with to this problem.
A simple approach is to filter them in your email client into a folder/tag and out of the inbox. That's what I do for mailing lists (which aren't well suited for RSS, since they're threaded).
That's what I do today but what often happens is I just never check them. Also some newsletters contain events or occasional time sensitive bits so partial filter has proved a challenge there. Curious to hear if you've experienced either of these.
Re: Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
#28Interesting idea that could co-exist with newsletters, but as a business person newsletters are the best. Seriously, nothing compares to a good list. Not Twitter, not Facebook, not Ads. It's gold.
Re: Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
#29Nothing currently wins over the format or ease of use of newsletters. This is why they're becoming MORE popular as an engagement tool. I think there's a vacant startup space for a tool that can beat newsletters for ease of both entry on the sender side and engagement by the recipients in the many-to-many communication mode.
Re: Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
#30Kudos for making the source code available and allowing to self-host the service. If you are thinking about making some money with it, maybe one twist would be to be to offer a SaaS "proxy" between the newsletter and the subscriber, where subscribers enter their real email and search for newsletters they are interested in and convert them into a feed? Although TBH I'm not sure there is money in RSS readers...
Also a few tweaks
- make the UI easier to use on mobile
- make feed title and feed URL fields appear together at the same time
- send a test post to each newly created feed so I can confirm it's working
That said, I'm not sure if OP is actually the author based on taking a glance at commit dates in the repo.