[HN Gopher] Using Thunderbird for RSS
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       Using Thunderbird for RSS
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2026-03-10 07:38 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | cristoperb wrote:
       | > Thunderbird delivers RSS feed items the same way as email, so
       | you can apply filters to mark them as "read"
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       | This is a good idea. I use Thunderbird only for a small number of
       | feeds I want to read every post from. I used to also use a
       | separate feed reader for my "river of news", but eventually I
       | stopped looking at that and just loadded hackernews or reddit
       | when I wanted a distraction. But I might try Thunderbird for more
       | feeds and just auto-mark most of them as read so I can browse at
       | my leisure.
        
       | Aldipower wrote:
       | I use Thunderbird to consume the changelog of my very own
       | software. I can confirm, it works great! I get always notified
       | accurately when something changed I changed.
        
       | kev009 wrote:
       | I like Miniflux becuase it is easy to run and keeps a centralized
       | status if you have multiple devices. I guess if Thunderbird
       | supported the Fever protocol you could use them together unless
       | there is some other method I'm not aware of?
        
       | einpoklum wrote:
       | Man discovers long-available UI in common app, which he has not
       | noticed before! News at 11!
        
       | beached_whale wrote:
       | The issue I have with Thunderbird and RSS is that there's no good
       | way to do a show me the unread only and keep the feed folders.
       | You can do a search folder or show unread folders but that
       | affects mail too.
       | 
       | Or I don't know how
        
       | mathnode wrote:
       | Yes I have been doing this for years. I also have my gmail
       | account plumbed in so I have a local copy of my emails; easy
       | archiving. And yes I manually copy my opml changes across devices
       | and I like it!
        
       | dizzy9 wrote:
       | This may be a good alternative to the various web-based services,
       | which suffer from various limitations (cost money, display ads,
       | limited number of feeds, limited retention, annoying features you
       | don't want, etc). The email-style user interface is also
       | familiar, and you can set up filters to ignore or star certain
       | stories.
       | 
       | Assuming you don't need syncing across devices, the main drawback
       | to self-hosting is that it only receives updates while your PC is
       | switched on. Some feeds update often enough that you'll miss
       | stories if you don't grab them multiple times per day.
        
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