Re: RSS with Gnus (elfeed backend?)

[Jose A. Ortega Ruiz]

On Fri, Apr 02 2021, Garjola Dindi wrote:

> Hi José,
>
> Thanks for the hint! It seems an interesting replacement for feeds2imap.
> I guess that all feeds go to the same e-mail address and that you use
> splitting to create different groups?

Yes, more or less.  When adding new feeds to the r2e list, one can
specify the email address per feed, and i set it to things like
jao+programming@localhost, jao+news@localhost, etc., and then filter on
the part after + in the address to group my emails into categories (in
my case, the filter is a sieve script, since i use dovecot for other
things and have it my LDA, but gnus can do similar filtering).  To ease
filtering, r2e also lets you define a message header of your choice that
will be added to all emails.

> Would you be willing to share your configuration?

This is an extract of my config (r2e updates it when you use commands to
add or remove feeds and the like).  Reading it i discovered that r2e is
also able to deliver to maildirs, BTW (setting email-protocol to
maildir):

        [DEFAULT]
        from = r2e@localhost
        user-agent = rss2email/__VERSION__ (__URL__)
        use-8bit = True
        force-from = False
        use-publisher-email = True
        name-format = {feed-title}: {author}
        to = jao@localhost
        unicode-snob = True
        links-after-each-paragraph = True
        body-width = 0
        email-protocol = smtp
        sendmail = /usr/sbin/sendmail
        smtp-auth = False
        smtp-username = username
        smtp-password = password
        smtp-server = localhost
        smtp-port = 25
        smtp-ssl = False

        [feed.morningpaper]
        url = https://blog.acolyer.org/feed/
        to = jao+programming@localhost

        [feed.notevenwrong]
        url = http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?feed=rss2
        to = jao+physics@localhost

        [feed.wondermark]
        url = http://feeds.feedburner.com/wondermark
        to = jao+fun@localhost

        [feed.smbc]
        url = https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/rss
        to = jao+fun@localhost

        [feed.existential]
        url = https://existentialcomics.com/rss.xml
        to = jao+fun@localhost

        [feed.emacsplanet]
        url = https://planet.emacslife.com/atom.xml
        to = jao+emacs@localhost

        [feed.jao]
        url = https://jao.io/blog/rss.xml
        to = jao+programming@localhost

        [feed.in-our-time]
        url = https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/b006qykl.rss
        to = jao+podcasts@localhost

As an aside, a very nice side-effect of using something like r2e is that
the contents of the feeds are indexed and searchable by Gnus (i like to
use the dovecot and notmuch backends).

Cheers,
jao
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