News, info, and opinion by Mac users, for Mac users.

August 7, 2006

updates

Mail 3.0 to get RSS?

Posted Aug. 7, ’06, 12:35 PM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Software » Updates

Mail RSSSteve touched upon a host of new features in Mail during the WWDC Keynote, but one fairly major one that was not mentioned appears on Apple’s Leopard preview pages: RSS support.

Stop the presses
Thanks to new support for RSS in Leopard Mail, you’ll never miss another article. All the news you’re most interested in is delivered right to you. Just subscribe to an RSS feed in Mail and you’ll know the moment an article hits the wire. Even better, that same article will be waiting in your inbox. Quickly scan headlines and jump between feeds via the streamlined interface. And sorting your news is easy, too. Just set up a Smart Mailbox using search terms that pique your interest and Mail dynamically updates it when relevant articles are posted to your subscribed feeds.

Mozilla.org’s Thunderbird email client has long had RSS support, but in Tiger, Apple had primarily introduced RSS as an offshoot of Safari, where it never quite seemed to fit, in my opinion. Yes, RSS is often web-based, but the reader that they provided was little better than reading blogs off a webpage, and far inferior to stand alone RSS clients like Net News Wire. RSS has more in common, feeling-wise, to Mail, so perhaps this will help bring it to the masses.


4 Comments

Mike said:

Well, iCal is still another aplication and needs to be launched as another application - why couldn't they just included wiithin an Email appl/? ;-((( Entourage still wins this one for me. I also hope that the Status/Progress bar is back.

August 7, 2006 1:37 PM
Dan Author Profile Page said:

I hope the status/progress bar comes back too, Mike. I hate having to toggle the Activity Window on and off just to see if my Mail is actually being retrieved or not. One of my major gripes with Tiger's Mail.app.

August 7, 2006 1:40 PM
Derik Author Profile Page said:

My tail is wagging I'm so happy Mail is still separate from iCal.

If Mail.app can sync RSS read status like Safari does currently, I may strongly begin to think about moving away from NetNewsWire.

August 7, 2006 5:05 PM
anon said:

Check out the progress in the bottom left corner

August 10, 2006 12:41 AM

Leave a comment

 



Visit other IDG sites: