- February 7, 2007
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I’m a raving fan of RSS.
When someone sends me an interesting email newsletter, my first response is “is there an RSS feed?” Why? I don’t want newsletters and alerts cluttering up my email box, and I prefer to read all my news sources through one central RSS app (personally, I’m a fan of Google Reader). But what if that shiny new exciting email newsletter doesn’t provide an RSS feed? (Dinosaurs!)
Enter mailbucket, an email-to-RSS gateway.
If you send email to AnyAddressYouMakeUp@mailbucket.org, they’ll burn that email stream into a public feed located at www.mailbucket.org/AnyAddressYouMakeUp.xml. How cool!
To preserve history, I opted to sprinkled some gmail into the sauce. Here’s the three step recipe:
- Create new gmail account, something like MyFeedBucketFeeds@gmail.com Pick something long and arcane to avoid spam.
- Under the gmail ’settings’ tab, have all the email into this box forward to MyFeedBucketFeeds@mailbucket.org, while keeping a copy in the gmail box.
Gmail’s wonderfully large mail box serves as a history for the newsletter. - Subscribe to www.mailbucket.org/MyFeedBucketFeeds.xml in your favorite web or desktop RSS reader.
Don’t use MailBucket for private email, as the resulting feeds are wide open. And I wouldn’t use MailBucket for mission-critical information, in the service case hiccups or vanishes.
MailBucket: a wonderfully simple and free means to burn email to RSS. Kudos to Tom Dyson for providing this excellent resource.
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