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Re: RSS to Email Suggestions

Mike McGuire — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:48:29 -0000

I use Mozilla Thunderbird for both mail and several RSS feeds. Subscribing is pretty painless. However, I have only used it on Windows....

Re: RSS to Email Suggestions

Danielle — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:41:56 -0000

I use OUTLOOK 2007 (business) and AOL (MyAOL) to receive RSS. Both seem to work fine.

Re: RSS to Email Suggestions

Pablo — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:29:50 -0000

Hi,

I've tested Feedblitz (http://www.feedblitz.com), Zookoda (http://www.zookoda.com) and Xfruits (http://www.xfruits.com) for a while and I prefer Feedblitz because it can merge several feeds in one e-mail alert and it runs in a daily base.

Re: RSS to Email Suggestions

Nicole — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:48:42 -0000

Greg, I'm thinking of a tool I'd mention in classes and so it's for all feeds - not just this site.

David, thanks!!

Re: RSS to Email Suggestions

Greg — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:39:49 -0000

Are they just trying to get email updates of your site? If so, then Kathryn's right and you should just offer the Feedburner Email Subscriptions functionality in your sidebar. It's just an embeddable chunk of code. Piece of cake to implement and simple as can be for readers. You can see what that looks like on my blog.

If they're trying to get email updates of all of their feeds, then David's suggestion is probably the way to go.

Re: RSS to Email Suggestions

Nicole — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:19:10 -0000

Kathryn,

I'm making a suggestion to non techie people who are clicking an RSS link on a web page - so feedburner is a bit overkill for that.

Thanks for the other suggestions!!

Re: RSS to Email Suggestions

Kathryn Greenhill — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:15:38 -0000

Hi Nicole.

Most obvious is to burn a Feedburner feed and use the emailing function of that.

RSS2Mail for Opera : http://www.softpedia.com/ge...

Other people will have their faves that they have used, but *another* option is to look at modding your email reader to receive and display RSS feeds.

Netscape Thunderbird has an inbuilt RSS reader. Outlook 2007 also allows you to add a "RSS feeds" mailbox for feeds. I have used RSS Popper ( http://rsspopper.blogspot.c... ) to add an "RSS" mailbox to earlier versions of Outlook.