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https://web.archive.org/web/20190922094853/http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/

Allows one to use RSS with an email client.

• /tag/rss2email

• rss2email, and a rant on usability-apathy

• Exporting claws-mail’s RSSyl OPML file for rss2email

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• 2010-02-15 – (version not recorded) on Unity Linux 64bit-beta2

• 2010-02-09 – (version not recorded) on Unity Linux 64bit-beta2

2010-02-15 – (version not recorded) ∞

I think this is from 2010-02-09

• rss2email.infogami.com/webui
• Hacked to add podcast support
• Useful patch(es)

• MDA support

wget webpy.org/static/web.py-0.33.tar.gz
tar -xvvzf web.py-0.33.tar.gz
cd web.py-0.33
su
smart install python-distutils lib64python-devel
python setup.py install
cd ..
wget lindsey.smith.googlepages.com/r2eui.tar.gz
tar -xvvzf r2eui.tar.gz
cd r2eui
\wget  --continue  web.archive.org/web/20091116201839/http://rss2email.infogami.com:80/rss2email.py
wget www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text/html2text.py
wget feedparser.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/feedparser/feedparser.py
echo 'python ./rss2email.py ./feeds.dat "$@"' > ./r2e.sh
chmod +x r2e.sh
./r2e.sh new

edit rss2email.py:

DEFAULT_FROM = "you@example.com"
HTML_MAIL = 1
TRUST_GUID = 0
DATE_HEADER = 1
VERBOSE = 1
SMTP_SEND = 1
SMTP_SERVER = "example.com:25"
AUTHREQUIRED = 1
SMTP_USER = 'username'  # for SMTP AUTH, set SMTP username here
SMTP_PASS = 'password'  # for SMTP AUTH, set SMTP password here

rm config.py
python r2eui.py

1. In your browser, visit http://0.0.0.0:8080/
2. Add the feed https://web.archive.org/web/20090208012149/http://rss2email.infogami.com:80/blog/atom.xml

3. Set the default email address

Example Gmail configuration:

SMTP_SEND = 1
SMTP_SERVER = 'smtp.gmail.com:587'
AUTHREQUIRED = 1
SMTP_USER = 'example@gmail.com'
SMTP_PASS = 'password'

Example Lavabit configuration:

SMTP_SEND = 1
SMTP_SERVER = 'lavabit.com:587' #  One of ports 25, 587, 2525, or 3535  
AUTHREQUIRED = 1
SMTP_USER = 'example@lavabit.com'
SMTP_PASS = 'password'

r2e.sh new
r2e.sh email example@gmail.com
r2e.sh add http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/USERNAME/videos.rss
r2e.sh run

2019-10-29 – YouTube no longer supports RSS. For historical interest, see YouTube RSS feeds.

Note that you must wait for an entire feed to be processed before any emails will appear in your inbox.

2010-02-09 – (version not recorded) ∞

• NOTE: There was a UI at the time at rss2email.infogami.com/blog/webuiv110

\wget  --continue  web.archive.org/web/20091116201839/http://rss2email.infogami.com:80/rss2email.py
wget rss2email.infogami.com/config.py
wget www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text/html2text.py
wget feedparser.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/feedparser/feedparser.py
echo 'python ./rss2email.py ./feeds.dat "$@"' > ./r2e.sh
#  Their script has:  python rss2email.py feeds.dat $*

Edit the config.py file and fill in your outgoing email server’s details. If your server requires you to login, change “AUTHREQUIRED = 0” to “AUTHREQUIRED = 1” and enter your email username and password.

chmod +x r2e.sh
./r2e.sh new
./r2e.sh add https://web.archive.org/web/20090208012149/http://rss2email.infogami.com:80/blog/atom.xml you@example.com
./r2e.sh run

After a long wait, I got:

Fatal error: could not connect to mail server "example.com"

I couldn’t do things their way, so I’ll use sendmail..

edited config.py, and

SMTP_SEND = 1^
=>
SMTP_SEND = 0^

…. but HOLY FUCK is sendmail stupid. I can’t figure out basic configuration:

I mean.. what the hell.. to determine the version, there are multiple ways..

/usr/sbin/sendmail -d0.1 -bt < /dev/null

Why would anyone think of sendmail --version?? That would be RIDICULOUS!

…

After days of struggling, I give up. I hacked the source and I still can’t get the thing to work with three different email providers.