RSS feed to email - email

a newbie on RSS feed here. I need to monitor a RSS feed via the email. I have tried the rss2email(http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/). But it seems sometimes doesn't work properly for some reason. I noticed, it didn't send email when there's a new RSS feed. I'm not very familiar with phyton, but I see a pattern when one of the RSS feed doesn't have a link, it seems got confused.
I'm wondering do you guys know any good free tools to convert the RSS feed into a email or what is the simplest way to do it? The RSS feed i need to monitor is RSS 2.0.
Thanks.

Looking for scipts, you have
feeds2imap
newspipe (Python)
rss2mail (Python)
Otherwise, web services like the follwing are doing a pretty googd job
- MailChimp (RSS campaigns, free until 2000 subscribers)
- Zapier
- IFTTT

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