Port of the week: rss2email

Author: Solène

Date: 24 January 2017

Tags: portoftheweek unix email

NILThis is the kind of Port of the week I like. This is a software I just

discovered and fall in love to. The tool **r2e** which is the port

**mail/rss2email** on OpenBSD is a small python utility that solves a

problem: *how to deal with RSS feeds?*

Until last week, I was using a "web app" named selfoss which was

aggregating my RSS feeds and displaying it on a web page, I was able

to filter by read/unread/marked and also filter by source. It is a

good tool that does the job well but I wanted something that doesn't

rely on a web browser. Here comes **r2e** !

This simple software will send you a mail for each new entry in your

RSS feeds. It's really easy to configure and set-up. Just look at how

I configured mine:

$ r2e new my-address+rss@my-domain.com

$ r2e add "http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=rss"

$ r2e add "https://dataswamp.org/~solene/rss.xml"

$ r2e add "https://www.dragonflydigest.com/feed"

$ r2e add "http://phoronix.com/rss.php"

Add this in your crontab to check new RSS items every 10 minutes:

*/10 * * * * /usr/local/bin/r2e run

Add a rule for my-address+rss to store mails in a separate folder, and

you're done !

NOTE: you can use **r2e run --no-send** for the first time, it will

create the database and won't send you mails for current items in

feeds.