Feature Request: Support Email Lists about fraidycat HOT 3 OPEN

Thank you for this detailed request! I definitely would like to support mailing lists - however, keep in mind that Fraidycat has no server. So I cannot offer email addresses. It is designed to run in your browser or computer - this is great because if I fail to keep things going for some reason, you still have a working program and all of your data.

I do support some email newsletters. (For example, https://nayafia.substack.com/ works for me.) So one solution is to pressure newsletters to have RSS feeds. This approach benefits everyone.

I am definitely willing to scrape email archives. I plan to support Tiny Letter, for instance. If you want to supply some links to some different email newsletter pages, I can investigate further.

I think this could also be a separate project: an email service that publishes its inbox to RSS.

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+1 for the suggestion; this was the first thing that occurred to me as well. Many email lists are moving to Substack but quite a few of the ones I follow are still purely Mailchimp/self-hosted/etc sometimes with their own payment configurations.

And as stupid as it is, I compulsively check the Updates tab on my Gmail accounts to keep myself from missing posts I care about from people I follow. Sometimes they end up in Promotions; other times elsewhere. It's basically a crapshoot.

I think this could also be a separate project: an email service that publishes its inbox to RSS

Agreed though, this feels like the best catch-all solution here.

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After some study, here's another option: Notifier - gives you a custom email address that publishes to RSS. You could use different email addresses for different newsletters.

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