Subscribing to NWIITT Feeds with Apple Mail

A demonstration of how to subscribe to the NWIITT RSS feeds using Apple Mail.

Apple Mail is the free mail client included with all versions of Mac OS X from Apple.

Copy the RSS Link

Navigate to the NWIITT RSS Feed Page and right click on the required feed link to display the contextual menu. The example here is from Safari (1).

Use the Copy Link option to copy the address of the RSS feed to your clipboard.

Creating a New Subscription in Apple Mail - Method 1

Select File > Add RSS Feeds... from the menu.

Creating a New Subscription in Apple Mail - Method 2

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

1. Select 'Specify a custom feed URL'

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

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.