Awesome
Convert an RSS/Atom feed into a collection of emails in mbox or rnews formats.
- does NOT send emails
- sendmail ready
- auto deduces output to text/plain or text/html
- sanitized html
- no configs, settings, templates, &c
- smol
Setup
Nodejs 20.x
$ npm i -g rss2mail
Usage
Read Spolsky's musings in mutt:
$ curl https://www.joelonsoftware.com/feed/ | rss2mail > 1.mbox
$ mutt -f 1.mbox
This will create html emails! You have no control around this--if rss2mail detects plain text in feed articles then it produces text/plain output.
To convert & send, install procmail pkg that contains formail util:
$ curl https://www.joelonsoftware.com/feed/ | rss2mail bob@example.com alice@example.net | formail -s sendmail -ti
To change From
header, use
$ curl ... | rss2mail -f me@example.com
To post to some rss.test
newsgroup:
$ curl https://www.joelonsoftware.com/feed/ | rss2mail --rnews rss.test | sudo -u news rnews -N
See also
News
-
1.0.0 breaking changes:
message-id
is generated differently.
License
MIT