Notification Delivery Delay
Executive Summary Between 2022-05-12 19:37 and 2022-05-13 12:06 UTC (a period of 16h 29min) notifications for feed updates were not delivered to most customers. These notifications were delivered...
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FeedBurner BrowserFriendly Email Subscription Widget
Update: FeedBurner is effectively disabled and no longer supports BrowserFriendly widgets. This post is obsolete but left up for historical reference.Google has disabled FeedBurner's email notification...
View ArticleDisabling HTTP WebSub for HTTPS Feeds
FeedMail supports WebSub for real-time feed updates. WebSub is a great technology that allows faster and more efficient content distribution. However WebSub hubs have the ability to inject arbitrary...
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Restore Deleted Subscriptions
To err is human, so we have added the ability to re-subscribe. Whether you clicked "Unsubscribe" by accident or simply changed your mind, our unsubscribe page now has an undo button.If you change your...
View ArticleTitle Overrides
You can now override the titles of your subscriptions. Simply go to the subscription detail page and enter a new title in the "Override feed title" field.By default the title comes from the feeds...
View ArticleDark Mode
FeedMail now has a dark theme. The dark theme will automatically be used if your browser indicates that you prefer dark themes. If you aren't seeing the dark theme please look up how to enable dark...
View ArticleGuides on How to Subscribe
We have created guides to subscribe to popular websites and services. We provide documentation on how to find the feeds of various services as well as third-party options for services that don't have...
View ArticleLog Out All Devices
Did you lose your phone? You can now log out all of your active sessions by clicking "Log out all devices" on the User Preferences page.Thanks to Muhammad Zain Khan for investigating FeedMail security...
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Owner-Paid Feeds
FeedMail now supports feeds that are paid for by the feed owner. This means that subscribers will not have to pay.For Subscribers As the first owner-paid feed, subscribing to the FeedMail blog is now...
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FeedMail Down
FeedMail is offline. This appears to be due to an outage at DigitalOcean, our primary hosting provider. Their status page says nothing is wrong but their control panel won't even load. We are trying to...
View ArticleFeature Ideas
We feel that FeedMail has the basics covered and are looking into what we can support next. We don't want to become too bloated but think there is room for a few more features!Here are some ideas that...
View ArticleUpdate to Date-based Entry Ignoring
TL;DR FeedMail will now ignore new items 7 days older than a previously seen item. This is expected to affect almost no "true" new posts. In theory checking to find new entries for a feed is a simple...
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Digests are Coming
Up to this point FeedMail has only supported real-time notifications. Meaning that every feed update immediately produces a single email. However this is about to change!When we asked for feedback on...
View ArticleDigests Leave Beta
Thanks everyone who has helped evaluate digests over the past weeks. All of the blocking issues are now resolved and we will be releasing them soon.Once digests are officially released there will be...
View ArticleOne Year of FeedMail
Hi, It's Kevin, the founder of FeedMail. Wow, time really flies. I missed FeedMail's birthday by a couple of days. On November 2nd 2021 I announced FeedMail publicly.At the beginning I was going to...
View ArticleNo body notification option.
Previously FeedMail provided two options for notification bodies:Content from the feed.Attempt to scrape content from the linked website.A third option is now available which includes no content in...
View ArticleBulk Editing
FeedMail now has some options for bulk editing. You can edit the following attributes of multiple subscriptions at the same time:Target (which email or digest the subscription notifies).Notification...
View ArticleFeedMail was Down
FeedMail was offline for 26 minutes. During this period the website was unavailable and feed updates were not sent.This outage was caused by our CoreDNS resolver failing. While FeedMail continued...
View ArticleUpdates 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...
View ArticleDelivery 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...
View ArticleEmail Headers
FeedMail now sets some email headers that advanced users can use to filter the messages that FeedMail sends. For example you can filter notifications in a specific category into a different folder. The...
View ArticleInvalid DKIM Signature for Some Mail
As of 2023-07-26 FeedMail messages sent via AWS SES have an invalid feedmail.orgDKIM signature. This may result in messages ending up in your spam folder. This is an ongoing issue and updates will be...
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Share to Subscribe
FeedMail can now be installed as an app on your phone. The main benefit of doing so is that you can share URLs to FeedMail to quickly subscribe. If you are reading an interesting article or blog post...
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Delay on YouTube Feeds
Most YouTube feeds have not sent new notifications since 2023-10-02 14:20 UTC.We will be triggering a manual YouTube feeds over the next hour and all missing notifications will be sent. If you have any...
View ArticleDigest Style Improvements
We have recently made some small improvements to digest emails. These features will be available in future digests to all users. No action is required on your part.Digests will now contain a...
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