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I prefer to use my email clients to read my news. Means I don't have to run an additional application. I have a script which monitors RSS feeds and turns them into emails. I filter them into a "News" mail folder. I run K-9 Mail, Mutt and Webmail depending on what device I'm using. Thanks to IMAP my "news readers" stay in sync due to the "\Seen" IMAP flag, and the ability to delete messages. Thanks to IMAP PUSH I don't have to poll for new RSS items on my various client devices. Thanks to IMAPs subscribe I don't get News on devices I don't want it on.

[edit] I use sieve to filter real newsletters into the same "News" folder, so it's a mixture of content from RSS feeds and newsletters.

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> I prefer to use my email clients to read my news.

Many email clients also handle RSS directly. Thunderbird, for example, is the most responsive RSS reader I've used.

That's fine if you only use a single email client and that email client is Thunderbird. Does Thunderbird sync RSS feed contents and state of those feeds with other clients on other platforms? Does it even do it with other instances of Thunderbird?

I first used rss2email[1], moved on to writing my own initially as a WP plugin (using the blogroll links to pull from); it gradually evolved into a standalone python thing to support mf2[2] feeds.

I do prefer RSS entries as email entries, therefore newletters and RSS feeds are more or less the same to me.

[1]: http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/ [2]: http://microformats.org/wiki/h-feed

I also initially used rss2email but ended up spinning it slightly for my own needs. It's a excellent tool to get over the first barrier of rss -> email though!

You can use http://blogtrottr.com/ to do this too

I use Feedburner, though despite being Google, it doesn't support feeds that use https :(

Oddly enough, I have a perl script that checks my "mailing lists" mailbox and turns that to an RSS feed. To each his own...

> I have a script which monitors RSS feeds and turns them into emails.

I totally keep meaning to do this. Glad I'm not the only one with this crazy preference!

https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap

I just use Opera 12 which has a great email client that is combined with an RSS client. It just treets RSS updates as slightly different emails.

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