I made the jump yesterday, and discovered to my (unhappy) surprise about how Mountain Lion now handles RSS.
Or, more precisely, how it *doesn’t*. RSS is no longer supported in either Mail.app or in Safari.
After reading a bit, I decided to try out Reeder. Nice program, but it has an unfortunate (fatal) flaw: It doesn’t import RSS from Mail.app.
Since I happen to be good with the command line, I shortly came up with a method to extract the RSS feeds. This is a 90% in that the results that it prints have some encoding (such as & for an ampersand.) I’ll post later a 100% solution.
To extract your RSS feeds:
find ~/Library/Mail/V2/RSS -name *.plist -print0 | xargs -0 grep -hA 1 RSSFeedURLString | grep “” | sed -e ‘s/.//’ -e ‘s/<\/string>$//’
You’ll now have a list of RSS feeds. Enjoy!
-Ian
After thinking about it a bit, I realized this may not extract RSS feeds for Safari. If anyone cares to try it out and post their results, I’ll gladly update my instructions to cover Safari.
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