Mac 101: Getting your RSS feeds in your inbox in Mail.app

RSS reader support has been a built-in feature of Mail.app since version 3.0 (when Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard was released). Although I subscribe to a number of RSS feeds, I've yet to find the need for a dedicated RSS reader app -- such as Newsgator's NetNewsWire.

I like having my email and news feeds in the same application. By default, RSS feeds that you subscribe to in Mail will appear in their own folder. If you'd like your RSS feeds to appear in your inbox, just click on the upward pointing arrow of an RSS feed(s) within the RSS section in Mail.app.

On the downside, this view of RSS feeds may flood your inbox and be overwhelming, depending on the number and the activity of feeds you're subscribed to. As a result, you may want to be selective in choosing your feeds. However, I've found this view particularly handy with time-sensitive feeds, and have used it on numerous occasions to score in-demand concert tickets (at face value prices, too!) with search-based Craigslist feeds.

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Fuzzmanmatt

I use Google Reader for my RSS feeds, it works great for what I do, and I can use it on my myTouch without any extra configuration, and just by logging in on any computer that I happen to be on.

December 30 2009 at 10:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Andrew

I used Mail for RSS when I first switched. The problem was that it very often lost track of what had been read and what hadn't and insisted on showing hundreds of previously-read entries as "new". I switched to NNW and am very happy with it.

December 29 2009 at 7:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Any way to increase the frequency of autochecking from 30 minutes to like 1 or 5 minutes? Craigslist can be a rat race for finding things first.

December 29 2009 at 5:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mac

I meant to type "auto-click" enabled.

December 29 2009 at 5:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mac

I agree, I just have folders of categorised RSS feeds on my bookmarks bar - with "one click" enabled (via view all bookmarks in the menu). I read tons of mac related news like this, as well as getting release info from my favourite movie rippers on the torrents ;)

December 29 2009 at 5:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kevitivity

I still find it hard to bother with an RSS reader at all when I have a browser on the same computer.

December 29 2009 at 5:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jacob

It would be nice if there was a way to get Google Sync to work with Mac Mail

December 29 2009 at 5:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply