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That... actually sounds like a fantastic idea. One folder per feed, you could read your feeds with your email client. Interesting...


That's how I view some rss feeds via thunderbird:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_RSS_Basics

Edit: Also this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5939742


Stavros, that's exactly what we do at http://www.feedsapi.org , we make it simple for our users to read their full text rss feeds from the comfort or ANY email client and we also delivr those in realtime (under 60 seconds).


Oh man, your site is pretty but the initial summary is waaaay too intense:

> Yes, Others May Offer “Real time” RSS To Email or RSS Readers for Free. But They Do NOT Fetch The Full Articles Content. They Do NOT Send Full Content but Only The Titles with Ads. They Do Not Fetch The Content in Real Time, They Call 15-minutes Real Time. We Check Your Sources Every 30 Seconds. That IS Real Time. They Do NOT Turn Shortened RSS Feeds Into Full Text RSS Feeds. They Do NOT Support other RSS Reader , We Support ALL RSS Reader Clients And You Do NOT Need Yet Another RSS Reader When Using Our RSS to Email Feature. You Do Not Need to Signin To Yet Another RSS Reader to Read Your Favourite News Articles, Feeds And Blogs, We Bring Them To You.

Real-time isn't something I'm really worried about, RSS feeds aren't something I read in real-time, they're something I let accumulate until I have some downtime.

That said, your service is pretty useful, but not for my usage. I prefer something that doesn't clutter my inbox and just sits there with tens of unread items until I get to it. I would love it if you provided an actual IMAP mailbox I could connect to and read RSS with my email client.


>I would love it if you provided an actual IMAP mailbox I could connect to and read RSS with my email client.

You can actually do that, all you need to do is set a filter+label in your email client or server. Works really well is you use Gmail but also works very good with the other email servers.




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