Subscribing to the MacBites Site Feed with Apple Mail

It’s really simple to subscribe to the MacBites site feed using Apple Mail … as follows:

Copy the RSS Link

Copy the RSS feed link:

http://macbites.co.uk/rss

Creating a New Subscription in Apple Mail – Method 1

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In Apple Mail select File > Add RSS Feeds… from the menu.

Creating a New Subscription in Apple Mail – Method 2

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Alternatively, use the ‘Add’ button at the bottom of the Apple Mail screen and select Add RSS Feeds …

Apple Mail Add RSS Feed Dialog Box

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1. Select ‘Specify the URL for a feed’

2. Paste the URL of the feed copied previously from the browser.

3. Check ‘Show in Inbox’ to have items from the the RSS feed sent to your Inbox or leave it unchecked to have the feed items appear in their own section in the RSS category.

4. Click Add to add the new feed.

Viewing the Feed

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Since we selected not to have the feed delivered to the Inbox the feed appears with it’s own title under the RSS section of the application. The number of new (unread) items is shown next to the title of the feed.