rss2email

a free, open-source tool for Windows and UNIX for getting news from RSS feeds in email

11 Responses to “About”

1. andrea says:

   February 25, 2010 at 7:27 am

   RFE

   an option to add some text to the mail

   e.g. I’m using r2e to warn people on a mailing list that something new has been posted to th corresponding forum, but the reply-to points to the ml, so that any reply is directed to the mailing list. I’d like to add a warning message (on top) to say “do not reply to this mail but go to the forum”

   
2. Mayuresh says:

   February 3, 2011 at 6:17 am

   I have a tiny change request about the mail format.

   I use vi as a pager through mutt to view my mails and hit a hot key on the URL to open it in an external browser.

   If the URL at the bottom of generated mail starts in column 1, it will be easy to reach by just hitting G in vi. Currently it is preceded by “URL: ” which requires additional keystrokes to reach the URL.
3. akshay sharda says:

   May 12, 2011 at 5:24 am

   I still do not get the command line installation
   please do help me
4. ryan says:

   July 2, 2011 at 9:55 am

   any sharepoint.com native syncing abilities, planned?
5. Lindsey Smith says:

   July 3, 2011 at 10:49 pm

   Ryan: Probably not. That’s sounds out of the scope of rss2email I think. Being OSS, anyone could add that functionality though.
6. dave says:

   July 11, 2011 at 12:44 am

   Hi Lindsey,

   thanks for a great program!

   There’s one little problem: I was using SMTP delivery, then my company installed a new mailserver that insists on SMTP authentication. It wasn’t clear how rss2email handles that (if at all) and in any case I didn’t want yet another place where my password is stored that needs changing every couple of months, so I switched over to using the local spool and sendmail.

   My local spool uses Postfix, and is set up to relay through the company’s server. Unfortunately, sendmail uses “user@local-host-name” as the envelope sender address by default, and my company’s mailserver rejects the mail because of that.

   I did a quick hack in rss2email.py and changed
   p = subprocess.Popen(["/usr/sbin/sendmail", recipient], stdin=…

   to
   p = subprocess.Popen(["/usr/sbin/sendmail", "-f", recipient, recipient], stdin=…

   (rss2email is configured to use the default “from” in my .rss2email/config.py
   file)

   This may well not work in all cases, especially if several people are using rss2email on the same machine. But it works for me.
7. Lindsey Smith says:

   July 11, 2011 at 1:38 pm

   Dave: also check the SMTP sending configuration options for config.py

   # 1: Use SMTP_SERVER to send mail.
   # 0: Call /usr/sbin/sendmail to send mail.
   SMTP_SEND = 0

   SMTP_SERVER = “smtp.yourisp.net:25″
   AUTHREQUIRED = 0 # if you need to use SMTP AUTH set to 1
   SMTP_USER = ‘username’ # for SMTP AUTH, set SMTP username here
   SMTP_PASS = ‘password’ # for SMTP AUTH, set SMTP password here

   # Connect to the SMTP server using SSL
   SMTP_SSL = 0
8. 100 Workout says:

   January 4, 2012 at 9:02 pm

   Lindsey – you might not even read this but thanks for posting up that bit of code regarding configuring SMTP sending. I’m not sure how but I managed to miss this during configuration and it was driving me nuts.

   Cheers,

   -FB
9. Paul Provost says:

   January 17, 2012 at 12:20 pm

   Hi Lindsey,

   I would like rss2email to handle a feed that is generated by a script, without going through http at all. Is this something that is currently possible? If not, I would like to avoid digging into feedparser.py. Can I just make a special case in parse() and feed the resulting text into feedparser?

   Please advise!

   Paul
10. Lindsey Smith says:

    January 17, 2012 at 8:14 pm

    Paul: yes this is possible. Just save the output of the script to a file and add the file’s location (e.g. r2e add /path/to/file).
11. Paul Provost says:

    January 19, 2012 at 4:25 am

    Hi Lindsey,

    Thanks for your answer. In the meantime, I’ve been bad and hacked rss2email.py… That’s what open source is for, right? I added stuff in the parse function:

    if url.strip().split(‘:’, 1)[0] == ‘exec’:
    process = subprocess.Popen(url.strip().split(‘:’,1)[1].split(‘ ‘),
    stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
    stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
    output = process.communicate()[0]
    return feedparser.parse(output, etag, modified)

    This seemed the most surgical place to do this… I like the fact that rss2email calls the script directly instead of having another cron job write the file. Now I can add “exec:” entries, and they work nicely. I have some issues with handling spaces in the script path, but it works well enough for my purposes. It still lacks polish, though. What do you think? Feature, or do I keep it on my side?

    Paul

    P.S.: I can now get my Twitter timeline delivered by rss2email. I’m happy! On to Google+…