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April 03, 2008

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
  3. % egrep -o 'xmlUrl="(.*?)"' MySubscriptions.opml | egrep -o 'http.*[^"]' | pbcopy
    
  4. In Mail.App, select “Add RSS Feed”, and in the text area that pops up, paste in the clipboard.

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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.

You could always just use rss2email.

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

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