rss2email VS feed2imap-go

For a long time I've been a happy user of rss2email, originally written by Aaron Swartz. https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email

It periodically fetches the rss feeds, and sends the content to a specified email address where you can use your email reader to sort them into folders.

Assuming you have a "good" email client, this takes care of most of my RSS requirements: Free software, offline availability, and the ability to read anywhere.

The only missing feature I think it could use is a nice GUI to manage feeds.

If you are looking for free high polling frequency your other option is probably self-hosting. You can run https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email yourself and configure the polling rate. You can probably use the SMTP service of your current email provider to send these messages at no additional cost to you. You do need an always-on computer to run it on and the knowledge to run it (or the willingness to learn) but I know a lot of people enjoy rss2email.

looks like there's a lib for that already too https://pypi.org/project/rss2email/

You can do an equivalent thing on your own machine with https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email

Debian/Ubuntu has the original version of rss2email (https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email) in the repos, and it is in the AUR. Not sure about Fedora or SUSE.

feed2imap-go has the possibility to use custom scripts/snippets. But it does not have a UI and uploads the items as mails.

I move between machines a lot, and so gave up on having a local RSS reader. I looked for a self-hosted web one, but didn't find one that I liked. So I setup a dovecot IMAP server and use feed2imap-go to sync my RSS feeds to IMAP folders. Now I can use email clients on my machines to access my RSS feeds in a synchronized manner.

1: https://github.com/Necoro/feed2imap-go

Depending on what you need: Feed2Imap-Go offers to store RSS feeds as mails. That offers you to use any mail reader that you like (be it mobile or be it on PC).

Shameless self-promote: https://github.com/Necoro/feed2imap-go

Shameless self-promotion: I use feed2imap-go that stores the RSS items as mails. I then use different mail clients to actually read them.

For instance, I've developed https://github.com/Necoro/feed2imap-go which uploads the feeds unto an IMAP account. Given you host the mail server yourself, there is no other party involved at all.

Yet another self-promotion: I have written feed2imap-go. This is a self-hosted software, that converts rss feeds to mails. Stuff like polling frequency/filtering is configurable.

(Credentials: I have written an RSS reader)

And for good measure: Changelog of my current pet project