I missed this when it was first "announced", but apparently the first RSS to email utility that I fell in love with is no more. About a year and a half ago, NBC purchased Rmail and rebranded it as SendMeRSS. Apparently NBC just stopped supporting it; the SendMeRSS website is down, and Randy Charles Morin, the original developer of Rmail, is reporting that NBC is threatening legal action against him for pointing out the fact that they're no longer supporting SendMeRSS. Seems a little heavy-handed, eh? Interestingly, in his post from August 24, 2008 Randy points to a library blog that detailed some of the problems being experienced with the now defunct product. Scarily, that blog no longer exists, though of course you can still read about the problems (and here) on Google's cache. Pittland simply ceased to exist after the last August 1, 2008 post. Wonder if I'll be next? 😉
Since it was one of the first RSS to email options I offered on this site I suspect there may be a few folks either receiving (or not) content from me via that channel. I'd be really interested to hear whether you're still getting stuff from me, or NBC, or ? I know it's a long shot, kinda like "raise your hand if you're not here", but it's worth a shot 🙂
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Let me start by apologizing. I never imagined that NBC would screw all their users when I sold them the website. I’m thoroughly embarrassed and beg your forgiveness. This is the worst nightmare of my life. Paul was one of my first users and he really helped me by pushing me to add features he wanted for his own subscribers. Thanks!
Another great Web 2.0 destroyed by corporate idiots.
This sux, sendmeRSS was how I kept up with my essential feeds on my phone on my train trips.
What are you using now?
RSSfwd not working for me, don’t know why?
– I have it on real-time delivery, but not working
Might try feedmyinbox, but it doesn’t have a dashboard or opml import.
Any other suggestions?
I just found this page while trying to find out, what happend to Rmail. I never used it though, since I only heard about it last week or so.
When I first started getting emailed feeds some weeks ago I used Blog Alert (http://www.shootthebreeze.net ). I still use this one, but I miss contact information and the possibility to get a list of all feeds subscribed to. It seems to be a service to collect data and earn money with ads, but who cares 🙂
I also checked out FeedBlitz which looks quite interesting and even provides a summary of topics at the beginning of the messages.
@John – Update: FeedBlitz allows both OPML import and export.
I guess I’d advise going to Feedburner and opting to have feeds delivered via email. You’d have to have an account with them, but it would do the trick just fine I’d think.
I’ve been trying rssfwd.com, but I may just try feedburner instead after reading Paul’s last comment.
I just upgrade Reblinks (Rmail 2.0) to Beta. Looking for people to use it, make suggestions and blast me with bugs.
http://www.reblinks.com/