Comments on: reliable rss-to-email service?

Question: reliable rss-to-email service?

mirileh — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:22:30 -0800

Can anyone recommend a reliable service that forwards RSS updates to email?

I keep track of blogs, magazines and mefi threads by having the RSS updates forwarded to my email. It used to work fine with rssfwd.com, until they changed their site. Now nothing seems to work. I have tried rssfwd.com, FeedBlitz, sendmerss.com and notify.me. (BTW, I use a mail without a spam filter for this, so my mail is not the problem).

Any reliable service out there?

By: kaydo

kaydo — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:04:16 -0800

Try yahoo pipes.

Some examples using RSS to mail.

I use this to email me some pretty infrequently updated feeds and it works for me.

By: Grither

Grither — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:09:55 -0800

Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but google reader is a pretty good RSS aggregator...

By: chrisamiller

chrisamiller — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:22:36 -0800

Have you tried rss2email?

By: curious_yellow

curious_yellow — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:50:57 -0800

chrisamiller: I don't know about the original poster, but in my case I *could* set that up but I'd rather have something hosted by someone else.

By: soelo

soelo — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:08:38 -0800

rssfwd.com is what I have used. Sendmerss.com used to be the best thing for this, but NBC Universal bought it and shut it down.

By: soelo

soelo — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:10:39 -0800

Ack, sorry to post the obvious.

What issues are you having with rssfwd.com? I had an issue with them in September, but they have worked fine since then.

By: mirileh

mirileh — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:15:21 -0800

soelo, The problem with rssfwd is that I'm not getting updates. They used to be great, but then they changed their format (I think they were sold) and I found them not to be reliable.

By: mirileh

mirileh — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:16:12 -0800

curious_yellow, I too would like to have someone else host the service.

By: mirileh

mirileh — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:25:12 -0800

giving yahoo pipes a try.

By: msbrauer

msbrauer — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:44:42 -0800

I had the same problem with a number of rss to email services (rssfwd included) and never found a solution. From a recent metatalk thread, I found Feed My Inbox which has worked well so far.

By: soelo

soelo — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:19:28 -0800

Have you upgraded your profile since September? Rssfwd.com stopped working for me too. I had to log in and have them import my old subscriptions to my new profile. I don't know why they didn't announce the change.

I have found a few others:
http://www.feedmyinbox.com/
http://www.feedmailer.net/
http://www.xfruits.com/
http://www.shootthebreeze.net/blogalert/index.php
http://www.inezha.com

and here is page that lists some more:
http://80.247.230.136/rss2mail.htm

By: mirileh

mirileh — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:27:31 -0800

yahoo pipes seems to be working so far (cross my fingers and marking kaydo as best in hope this will keep up).