Last night, my sister was telling me how she’s constantly on Craigslist looking for apartments in Brooklyn. It’s a very competitive market, and she has to wait until she gets home from work to check it – she misses all the good ones during the day.

I immediately thought of Pipes!

I quickly created a simple one to merge the Craigslist filtered RSS listings with another RSS listing feed for Brooklyn. I then signed her up and ran the pipe to an email alert that she could get on her phone. It was quite easy for me, but pretty much unintelligible to her. I just kept thinking how hard getting pipes to the masses will be. But that’s another story.

The output seemed great – it was exactly what I expected. Problem is, she hasn’t gotten an email yet.

To test it, I used the pipe and sent it to my own email. I even changed the delivery options to see if that made a difference. Nothing. I can’t get the damn thing to email me.

Has anyone gotten email alerts to work from a pipe?

Yeah I know… Beta.