help a reader "subscribe by email" to my DW (without an account)

[jesse_the_k]

I know that Feedburner offers a service to do this, but that means giving my subscriber email away.

Is there a way to do this using only my own stuff?

I could get a person's email in a screened comment.

Then add it to a private email list.

And then maybe have the RSS feed somehow trigger sending an email?

Oh wise techies, can you put the pieces together?

Happy to pay for expertise.

Comments

[ursula]

You should be able to do this with a combination of If This Then That and a gmail account. The steps would be:

1) Use an IFTTT recipe to send email to a designated gmail account every time your Dreamwidth RSS feed updates.

2) Set up a filter in gmail to forward messages from that feed to your designated recipient automatically.

[niqaeli]

It's alternatively possible to have IFTTT just use your a gmail account send out an email to a list of up to 20 accounts.

[ursula]

Cool!

[jesse_the_k]

Wow! Thank you for this great advice. Will try it out and come back to pester you with more questions.