Importing RSS Feeds into Mail.app

As an experiment, I wanted to try using Mail.app instead of NetNewswire to read RSS feeds (I know, I know...). To get my existing feeds across, I did the following.

1. In NNW, export your feeds as an OPML file (say to ~Desktop/MySubscriptions.opml)
2. In the directory holding that file, do

% egrep -o 'xmlUrl="(.*?)"' MySubscriptions.opml | egrep -o 'http.*[^"]' | pbcopy

3. In Mail.App, select “Add RSS Feed”, and in the text area that pops up, paste in the clipboard.

Comments

[Sean]

You can also just drag them from the NetNewsWire feed list into Mail's sidebar. Quick and easy.

I used it for a little while, but the workflow just didn't ... work for me. With NetNewsWire I could use the space bar to flip through the latest news and hit enter to load interesting articles in my web browser in the background. With Mail, I have to use the mouse to right click the Read More link then choose "Open Link behind Mail" from a menu. It's just too slow.

I'm curious to hear what your experience is like.

[David]

You could always just use rss2email.

[Fred Zelders]

Any idea to work the other way around? I.e. How to export rss feeds from Mail.App to an OPML?