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Missing RSS in OS X Mountain Lion (mail)
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I like the RSS feeds in Safari. I can quickly see what I want to read.
I really don't want to jump around to different apps to get RSS Internet content. Hopefully, RSS is part of Safari 5.2.
Helpful to send feedback to Apple's Safari Team
http://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html
I really don't want to jump around to different apps to get RSS Internet content. Hopefully, RSS is part of Safari 5.2.
Helpful to send feedback to Apple's Safari Team
http://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html
As big point of RSS some posters don't see is that it provides updates and information to your mail box as some sites don't have mailing lists or you might not want to subscribe. Why create another app? Sorry to those who are reading this again but people aren't reading. How would I get my macumors feeds to my mail and iPhone pushed otherwise?
I hate to say it, but you are confused on this one Peace. Something I didn't think I'd say on this forum.
The search options may still be there (artifact?), but that listing of "Subscriptions" aren't RSS subscriptions. IMAP has the concept of subscriptions built into the protocol. An IMAP client normally only subscribes to the INBOX folder, and anything under it by default. A lot of servers put all folders under INBOX by default for this reason. So your "Vacation Planning" folder is really "INBOX\Vacation Planning". It gets around oddities of the IMAP subscription model.
http://www.polaine.com/2008/05/apple-mail-folder-subscriptions-and-gmail-imap/
So no, RSS is not in ML's Mail.app although some vestiges may remain.
Agreed, it makes supreme sense for Safari to continue being an RSS reader, after all, why should you have to switch applications to read the rest of an article?
Yes, but Safari has certain extensions I prefer to be in place when I go to a web page of any sort.
I'm pretty bummed to hear about the removal of RSS from Mail as well. RSS in Mail is totally appropriate; look at the layout of Reeder or NetNewsWire, they're nearly identical to Mail! Folders, article/message list, message view pane. That layout works equally well for both email and RSS feeds. I love seeing new RSS articles inline with my email, it's exactly the same as being on an email mailing list. I've given Reeder a try, but I don't really see how it works any better than Mail does.
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Exactly. It's not much to include RSS in mail. Why would you have to open another app when my mac is on? Why does apple bother having its own site available on RSS and then take it away.
Please send apple feedback if you feel the same
interesting.
I'd be surprised if someone didn't make an RSS Extension for Safari, so the removal of RSS there may not be a big deal. Personally I'm fine with Safari losing some pounds, I don't read RSS in Safari. I do like having them in my email like other messages though.
I am not sure what kind of delusional worldview by which you have based your computing life, but any decent RSS reader uses practically no RAM and/or CPU. Reeder uses a whopping 0.9% of the CPU and I can't imagine Caffeinated using much more...
I wwouldnt be surprised if they made a standalone rss reader so they could make it use notification center and have it configured differently than the mail app.
The fact that Safari points to the app store makes me believe they are leaving this one to the third parties, at least for now.
I switched to Vienna since I came across this thread. It is wonderful. If you want a more recent version (with full screen support and sharing), get the beta from their Github repo.
But I still think Mail was the best place for RSS. Maybe someone will write an external plugin (like GrowlMail) for RSS.
The other option would be to run a server which takes a list of RSS feeds and delivers them via IMAP, so you just add the server as a standard IMAP email account to Mail and have the posts from the feeds come into your mailbox as emails.
It looks like there are a few old projects which do this or similar, though I've yet to see how well they work.
It looks like there are a few old projects which do this or similar, though I've yet to see how well they work.
I'm using NewsBar, eats only 20-30 MB of RAM, feeding news fast. Can sync feed list with Google Reader is you want, but has own feed reader engine.