Convert Emails into RSS feeds (open-source)

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Hi HN, I love consolidating my newsletters into a centralized reading app like Reeder. IMO it makes for a better reading experience and prevents my email inbox from getting clogged with newsletters. However, Reeder doesn't support email newsletters and many of the ones I'm subscribed to don't support native RSS feeds. There are some free services online that do the same thing (e.g. kill-the-newsletter.com), but I noticed several downsides: - No long-term retention: old RSS posts are deleted to save space. - Risk of blocklisting: being forced to use the same domain (@kill-the-newsletter.com) as everyone else increases the likelihood that an email newsletter can blocklist you from signing up. - Self-hosting is non-trivial: Kill The Newsletter is also open source, but the self-hosting steps didn't seem that straightforward and also don't focus on exclusively leveraging free services. On the other hand, while Email-to-RSS isn't necessarily a one-click-deploy solution, it's massively simplified to deploy by yourself, is customized to your domain, and is completely free (except for the custom domain itself)! I would love to hear from the community: is this even the best way to read email newsletters? What does your setup look like? I honestly wonder if this was even worth spending my time on if there's a more elegant solution out there... :D

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