Introduction
I was very excited by the introduction of a feed reader into Apple Mail with Leopard, however it has not lived up to my expectations as the list of feeds fails to sync between computers using .mac and is occasionally prone to disappearing altogether.
Unfortunately Apple seem to have omitted a way to export your feeds from their somewhat substandard reader, and this program is an attempt to address that shortcoming.
Apple Mail stores information about your feeds in a folder hierarchy under the ~/Library/Mail/RSS directory. This program recurses through that directory, building a list of feeds and exports them in either OPML or the weird Netscape Bookmark HTML format that Safari uses. You should then be able to import them into a more accomplished RSS reader such as Google Reader or the excellent NetNewsWire (recently released as freeware) or Safari itself.
The program itself seems to work quite well however the OPML format is a mess - consequently some programs have problems reading OPML files in - even ones they’ve created themselves, however it’s better than nothing.
Please let me know if you experience problems with odd character sets or anything similar.
Download
Source is included in the download. This application requires Mac OS 10.5 Leopard or above as it uses features of Objective C 2.0 including the garbage collector.
- Mail RSS Exporter 123KB
Installation
Double click the DMG and drag the application to your desktop or /Applications directory
Usage
The default input directory should be okay, but you may wish to change the output directory to somewhere that suits you.
Choose the format you require and hit “Export”.
Import the resulting file into your choice of feed reader.
Changelog
Version 0.2
Initial release
Version 0.1
Internal testing version
Popularity: 2% [?]