RSS2IMAP

RSS2IMAP is a utility which pulls RSS or Atom feeds and adds them as e-mails to "RSS" folder at your IMAP server.

Usage

Basically, you just launch rss2imap and that's it. RSS2IMAP connects to the IMAP server specified in the configuration file, iteratively reads the feeds from the list of feeds, creates e-mails for unread items and appends them to "RSS" folder at the IMAP server.

The utility needs 3 files in your ~/.rss2imap directory in order to work. These files are:

• Main configuration file config.yml You can use the following sample:

    ---
      server: imap.gmail.com
      port: 993
      username: nobody@gmail.com
      password: secret
      email-to: nobody@gmail.com
      email-from: rss2imap@localhost

The options are pretty self-explanatory. RSS2IMAP uses email-to and email-from when generating e-mails that are appended to "RSS" folder at your IMAP server.

• List of feed URLs feeds.txt. This is just a simple text file containing URLs of the RSS/Atom feeds that you want to pull the data from. RSS2IMAP is not fool-proof, so don't put rubbish there. Please. There should probably be an option to use a popular OPML file format for this too, so feel free to contribute.

• List of read items read.txt. You don't normally need to touch this file. It contains a list of read items which helps RSS2IMAP to determine whether it should add a feed item to your IMAP folder.

Authors

• Slava Kravchenko

Thanks

• Max Gonzih for the original feeds2imap.rb implementation.

See feeds2gmail for detailed info and references.