10.5: Use RSS feeds in Mail to monitor craigslist sale items

Jan 17, '08 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: countermind

To keep an eye on craigslist for something that you've been searching for for weeks, you can simplify the process by using Mail.app and a craigslist RSS subscription. Simply add an RSS feed to Mail from whatever craigslist category you want in whatever area you are in. After doing this, go to Mail » Preferences » Rules. Make a new Rule and call it whatever you want. Select a new item from the feed, and go to View » Message » Raw Source. Now you can edit your rules to your heart's content. Set the conditions for your rule.

For example, I'm looking for some Olympic Weights on the cheap, so I've got this:

If all of the following conditions are met:

Perform the following actions: This should make it easy to find what you want on craigslist in a very short amount of time. Searching hundreds of posts a day on the web can take hours. For some reason, however, forwarding of RSS messages to email accounts doesn't work at all in my experience. Happy bargain hunting!

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