Forward Email To RSS
We have shown you yesterday how you can forward RSS news to Email. Today it is the other way round by reviewing the service MailOnFeed which creates RSS news feeds from emails that you receive to one of your accounts.
The basic principle of the service is straightforward. You add one or multiple email accounts that support IMAP to the Mail On Feed profile to turn them into news feeds that you can then access using RSS readers.
You can subscribe to the email news feed in any news reader, for instance Opera Mail, Thunderbird, or any of the online-only readers. All incoming mail is displayed here so that you can read the mails in the feed reader.
Why would someone want to do that? The only practical issue that comes to mind is to publish the news feed on a website so that multiple users would have access to the email. It could also be interesting in situations where multiple users need read access to email accounts but that's configurable in mail clients as well.
There is not really a reason to use this service independently, at least none that we could think of while reviewing it. Many users will (rightfully) dislike the fact that they have to supply the authentication information of their email account on the website to enable the service. Another aspect is that the latest news entry on the company's blog dates back to last year. The project feels abandoned.
Can you think of another reason why someone would want to forward email to RSS?
Update: The original service that we reviewed here is no longer available.We have found an alternative that you can make use of instead. Emails 2 RSS is a free service that you can make use of to forward emails to an RSS feed that you can subscribe to. The author explains how to configure the application with Gmail in detail, but it should work with all services supporting forwarding.
AdvertisementThe way it works is very simple - service provides a generated email address(es) for you. All incoming emails received by the particular address goes to correspond RSS feed.
Usage is pretty straightforward - you setup forwarding rules on your email service that catch emails based on some criteria forward them to the email address given by the service and delete/archive the email. And then you subscribe to the given RSS feed address with your favorite RSS Reader.
You said that Outlook isn’t your main email client, so which is your main one?
I think its thunderbird
It is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
You are a god – thank you!
thanks a lot…. work like charm.. :-)
Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)
Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
thank you very much!
I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
Man, you are a fucking god. Thanks a lot, what an annoying bug!!
Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!