read newsfeeds from your email client
rss2email is a free tool for delivering news from RSS feeds to your email program that works under Windows and UNIX.
Get started with rss2email now. This is the new web home for the application. The original homepage for rss2email is here.
The latest news on rss2email is on our blog. The latest version is v2.62 (CHANGELOG). The latest version of the web UI is v1.00.
Why use rss2email?
There are many different ways to read RSS feeds. Maybe rss2email is the right one for you.
First, rss2email is open source and free to download and use forever.
rss2email lets you read newsfeeds from a program that you already know and use everyday: your email client. So rather than having to learn to use a new program or visit a webpage, rss2email delivers news items to the place where information that is important to you already is.
Your email client probably has useful filtering capabilities. Rather than be bombarded by every new item, you can sort and group feeds into different folders so that the important stuff gets read first and other things stick around until later.
Also, if you find something that you want to hang onto or foward to a friend, you probably already know how to do that in your email client.
There are many "flavors" of RSS in use today. There's even a flavor called Atom that's not RSS at all. No matter what flavor you find, rss2email can read it.
Some people want pretty emails in HTML format. Others always want text, with no HTML at all. News feeds can be all over the place, sometimes HTML, sometimes just text. With rss2email you get HTML if you want or you can always get readable all-text versions, even if the original entry contained HTML.
rss2email Features
- Runs on Windows and UNIX
- Plays nicely with standalone email clients, webmail and text email readers
- Compatible with POP or IMAP email servers
- Can read any RSS or Atom newsfeed
- Nicely handles non-US character sets
- Free to use, forever
What is RSS?
RSS is a popular way of automatically tracking updates to web sites. Maybe it's a new entry on a weblog (Feed), the latest flower photos (Feed), someone selling blue suede shoes (Feed) on Craig's List or a breaking news story (Feed).
The way it works is that a site provides a "newsfeed" and a link to that feed. When you run rss2email, it checks each newsfeed link and emails every new entry that's in the feed.
That's pretty much it. If you want the techie, under-the-hood details, look here.
Contact Us
If you have a question or comment about rss2email, email us at rss2email@aaronsw.com.
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