Digests Now Respect Category Filters

Due to an oversight category filters did not apply to digests. This has been corrected and future digests will be filtered by your selected categories. If you do not want this filtering to occur please update your filters to "Ignore selected categories" and deselect all categories to inactivate the filter.

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Delivery Delays to Gmail

In the past 48 hours Google has started delaying the delivery of some FeedMail notifications. This is currently affecting about 10% of messages to Gmail users. These notifications will be resent with a delay. We also speculate that some notifications will be marked as spam. Update : As of 2023-05-09 this appears to be resolved. If You Are Affected If you use Gmail you may be affected by this. Notifications may be delayed or marked as spam. If your notifications are marked as spam you can create a filter to avoid this. Use "from:*@feedmail.org" as the rule and select " Never send it to Spam". If your notifications are delayed we are unaware of any action that you can take. However marking notifications that ended up in your spam folder as "Not Spam" may help avoid future delays. It does appear that these emails are eventually being accepted but we are unsure if that means that they are actually ending up in users' mailboxes (or even their spam folder

Updates to HTML Processing

Since its inception FeedMail has done processing on HTML content in feeds to ensure that it renders as expected in email form. At first this was fairly simple things like rewriting URLs to point to the correct location (many feeds use non-absolute URLs that won't work in email) but over time more complex transformations were added such as adding fallback content to media embeds without any. The full-text scraping feature requires even more complex processing as it requires stripping away most of the page and handling content that was designed for full-featured browsers. What changed? Recently FeedMail has migrated all HTML rewriting to use new infrastructure. This provides more flexibility and enabled new features (such as showing controls on all media embeds) and made our processing much more reliable. What does this mean to me? As a user you shouldn't see much difference. Overall the emails you receive should be better formatted but the difference will be subtle. Full-text sc

Providing Email Subscriptions to your Readers with FeedMail

If you offer a blog with an RSS feed you can reach more users by offering email subscription as well. FeedMail provides an easy-to-integrate newsletter that has no cost to you. Just select one of the implementation strategies below. Implementation Options Link The easiest option is to provide a link to the subscribe page. First got to the FeedMail New Subscription page. Enter your website's URL and click "Go". Then copy the URL from your browser's address bar. This the the URL to subscribe to your website! It should look something like https://feedmail.org/subscriptions/new?url= https%3A%2F%2Fyour-site.example . You can then link to that URL from your site. For example if you are using raw HTML in your design it would look something like: <a href="https://feedmail.org/subscriptions/new?url= https%3A%2F%2Fyour-site.example ">Click here to subscribe by email.</a> Subscribe Button To use a button simply add the following code to your website. &l

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