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Comment on Getting Started with rss2email by How To Export Google Sites To Blogger?

How To Export Google Sites To Blogger? — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:32:52 +0000

[...] instead, we are going to use a free, open-source tool called RSS2Email. It is available for users of both Windows and Unix [...]

Comment on About by miforbes

miforbes — Wed, 29 May 2013 23:16:09 +0000

Many thanks for this project, I have been using it for years.

One feature I’d find helpful (and made the modification in my local copy) is to have an option to add a delay between each email. This way, if I subscribe to a feed that dumps 100 emails on me (which I do) my email server won’t think that this is spam (once, my email server temporarily stopped delivering mail to me because of this issue).

Comment on Getting Started with rss2email by Vincent

Vincent — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:57:54 +0000

Wow, this is exactly what I was looking for! Two suggestions:
1) Add a flattr button on your site
2) I want to “cluster” the news like “all new posts within one mail” or “all new posts by one site in one mail” – Is there a chance of getting this feature?

Anyway – thank you very much!

Comment on Version 2.71 Release plus Other Major Updates by Lindsey Smith

Lindsey Smith — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:05:31 +0000

Trevor: it’s unlikely at this point that I’d do new feature development in the 2.x line. Bug fixes are reasonable so there’s an alternative for Python 2.

And I mean forking in the best possible sense.

Comment on Version 2.71 Release plus Other Major Updates by Trevor King

Trevor King — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:05:34 +0000

Jim, it looks like you are using my branch of rss2email, but you haven’t installed one of the dependencies (feedparser and html2text). You should get a message explaining that importing rss2email.error failed because one of these packages is missing, but due to some regressions in Python3.3 [1,2], you don’t. Both bugs have been fixed and will land in Python3.4.

Linsey, “fork” is such a strong word . I though I was just continuing development where you left off, due to lack of time. Do you plan to resume development without incorporating work from my 3.x line? There has been some interest in maintaining a `2.x` branch that avoids the Python3 dependency, if that’s appealing to you…

[1]: http://bugs.python.org/issue15111
[2]: http://bugs.python.org/issue15316

Comment on Version 2.71 Release plus Other Major Updates by Lindsey Smith

Lindsey Smith — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:34:20 +0000

No, Python 2.x (specifically 2.5 or higher I believe) is required. Python 3 is not supported in this version.

A fork of rss2email at https://github.com/wking/rss2email does support Python 3 though.

Comment on Version 2.71 Release plus Other Major Updates by Jim

Jim — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:45:28 +0000

Tried installing on a Mac. First surprise was that it required python3. So I used homebrew to install python3. Using pip3 to install rss2email apparently worked fine but when I invoke r2e I get:

/usr/local/share/python3/r2e
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/share/python3/r2e”, line 3, in
import rss2email.main
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.3/site-packages/rss2email/main.py”, line 27, in
from . import command as _command
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.3/site-packages/rss2email/command.py”, line 25, in
from . import error as _error
ImportError: cannot import name error

I’ve spent 20 minutes tweaking my PYTHONPATH but that doesn’t seem to make a difference.

Comment on Download by Alan

Alan — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:47:30 +0000

Or if you have the braindead “tar” problem and also can’t be bothered to download GNU tar, then first create the directory yourself and then extract the individual files from the tar file.

For example (in bash shell or similar):

tarfile=rss2email-2.71.tar
dirs=`tar tf $tarfile | egrep ‘/$’`
files=`tar tf $tarfile | egrep -v ‘/$’`
mkdir $dirs
tar xf $tarfile $files

though I hate to think what kind of system isn’t using GNU tar by default these days.

Comment on Download by Alan

Alan — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:35:12 +0000

(Or if your actual problem is that untarring is itself failing because you are using some braindead tar implementation that sets the 000 permissions on the top level directory straight away and then cannot create any files inside it, then I suggest you use GNU tar instead, which defers the permission setting until the end to avoid precisely this problem.)

Comment on Download by Alan

Alan — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:31:29 +0000

“it seems that all the files have 000 permissions”

I really think that someone who knows enough Unix to describe the problem in those terms probably also knows how to fix it. Nonetheless… you need to chmod the directory (to at the very least 500, and I suggest 755) before you can cd into it and see the contents to chmod them. A recursive chmod at the top level (“chmod -R 755 rss2email-2.71″) will do all this in one go. Then you can optionally remove execute bits from any files that don’t need them, but if you don’t know how to or which files don’t need it, then just leave them as 755.