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See actual feed URLs in mail.app on mac os x

By Anna Medlin - May. 29, 2008

Ok, this is weird. I am trying to see the actual RSS feed urls in mail.app on my mac so I can share that and add it to iGoogle. However, I don't know how to do this on the mac! There is no context-click option, and nothing under preferences. Any insights on how I can view my RSS feed urls?


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  1. By Karl Hand on May. 30, 2008

    This is actually not very straightforward on the Mac with mail.app.


    You can glean this information from the plist for the app, and here is a way to do it (thanks to Luziferus at Mac OS X hints!)


    1) Open Terminal

    2) Type the following:

    IFS=$'\n';for i in $(find ~/Library/Mail/RSS/ -name "Info.plist");do grep "http://" $i | sed "s/.*\(http[^


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  2. By an anonymous user on Jul. 12, 2008

    You have an error in your code! It should read:

    IFS=$'\n';for i in $(find ~/Library/Mail/RSS/ -name "Info.plist");do grep "http://" $i | sed "s/.*\(http[^<]*\).*/\1/";done


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  3. By an anonymous user on Jul. 23, 2008

    The "pubsub" command line utility can list this information:


    pubsub list client com.apple.mail


    If you only want the urls, pull out the third column:


    pubsub list client com.apple.mail | awk -F\t '{print$3}'


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