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

grepfeed, gmakerss

News

• 1.0.0 breaking changes:

  • message-id is generated differently.

License

MIT