RSS to Email wrapup
Last month I posted about and got some really good feedback and suggestions on an RSS to email solution. I just wanted to wrap that up here for those of you who don't get the comments. The two best solutions seem to be RSSFwd and Rmail, both of which, with a minor amount of HTML coding, allow one to embed a single box on one's blog where the user can enter an email address and forever more receive every post as an email. Also improved since our initial peek is Bot a blog, which now offers snippits of the post in the email instead of simply a link letting you know some content had changed.
With Rmail you'll get an email with the updated post within an hour. I believe RSSFwd does a batch job so there's a longer delay. I plan to implement an Rmail subscription link for this blog as soon as I get around to it :-)
Thanks Dude! Mucho appreciated.
-Rmail dude
Posted by: Randy Charles Morin | Monday, May 02, 2005 at 07:27 PM
Thanks for the info! Of the two, I think I like (and will go with) RSSFwd. I checked, and feeds are polled at 2-hour intervals. Considering how long Bloglines takes to update feeds sometimes, it's not too shabby!
Posted by: Sherri | Monday, May 16, 2005 at 02:36 PM
You've may already have discovered it; there's a new service that works just like a "normal" email autoresponder and even enhances the publishing experience using RSS.
RSS eMail Autoresponder is a hosted service just like AWebber and the others but uses rss to distribute information.
There is discussion of providing video rss feeds with the system and it already does all you want and more via rss and also imports rss informaton for you.
The address is; www.rss-email-autoresponder.com
Posted by: www.rss-email.net | Friday, June 03, 2005 at 10:53 AM