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I have been using https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email with a dedicated email address for several years now, tracking a
by jaster 7y ago
I have been using https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email with a dedicated email address for several years now, tracking around a hundred RSS feeds.
The system works quite well, and I can read my RSS both via a client-side app (thunderbird in my case) and on the go via the webmail. I even made a small modification to rss2email to automatically "tag" the mails so I can use mail filters to automatically sorts the feeds into different folders.
I have a server that fetches the RSS content a few times a day, but I guess it could also work "locally", for example by doing it once each time I turn on my computer (if you are okay with "missing out" sometimes on very active feeds).
I decided to do the switch when I noted that the interfaces of my email client and of my RSS reader were basically indistinguishable.
EDIT: for the anecdote, this project was initially created by the very same Aaron Swartz that, among other things, contributed to the creation of the RSS format http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001148 http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001148