https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap

An adaptation of rss2mail that uses IMAP directly
https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap

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An adaptation of rss2mail that uses IMAP directly

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap
• Owner: rcarmo
• Created: 2013-03-15T10:27:25.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-01-13T16:17:08.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-02T00:14:42.853Z (5 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 755 KB
• Stars: 87
• Watchers: 9
• Forks: 13
• Open Issues: 5
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml

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rss2imap

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An adaptation of rss2email that uses IMAP directly.

# What does it look like?

Well, with the shipping CSS in `config.py`, it looks like this:



## What about mobile?

Well, it works fine with the Gmail app on both Android and iOS, as well as the native IMAP clients:



As long as you sync, all the text will be available off-line (images are cached at the whim of the MUA).

The Gmail app ignores CSS and may have weird behaviors with long bits of text, though.

# Main Features:

* *NEW:* Automatically file away messages read after one day instead of on every run

* Optional (naive) summarization of news items at the top of each item (see `SUMMARIZE` setting)

* E-mail is injected directly via IMAP (so no delays or hassles with spam filters)

* Feeds can be grouped into IMAP folders -- no inbox clutter!

* Generates E-mail headers for threading, so a post that references another post (or that includes the same link) will show up as a thread on decent MUAs. Also, posts from the same feed will be part of the same thread)

* Can (optionally) include images inline (as `data:` URIs for now -- which only works properly on iOS/Mac -- soon as MIME attachments)

* Can (optionally) remove read (but not flagged) items automatically

# Project Status

Given that I've only had to tweak _one thing_ after two years of continued use, I'd say this is more than stable. I've gone off and built a multi-threaded app with a SQLite feed store called [bottle-fever](https://github.com/rcarmo/bottle-fever), but there's only so much free time, and even though this code is crammed with hideous legacy idioms, it works as is.

Come 2016, I switched to Feedly because the user experience on the iPad using [Reeder](http://reederapp.com) was a little better.

## Similar Projects

Other projects I've come across that traveled this path in other languages:

* [greghendershott/feeds2gmail](https://github.com/greghendershott/feeds2gmail), using [Racket](https://www.racket-lang.org)

* [Gonzih/feeds2imap.clj](https://github.com/Gonzih/feeds2imap.clj), using [Clojure](https://clojure.org)

* [rcarmo/go-rss2imap](https://github.com/rcarmo/go-rss2imap) my attempt at tweaking a [Go](http://golang.org) version

* [Riduidel/rrss2imap](https://github.com/Riduidel/rrss2imap), using [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org/)

## Exercises For The Reader

* Test nested folders (am only using single folders, not a nested hierarchy, so this might break)

* Automatic message categorization using Bayesian filtering and NLTK

* Better reference tracking to identify 'hot' items

* Figure out a nice way to do favicons (X-Face is obsolete, and so is X-Image-URL)

# Here Be Dragons

Be aware that this works and is easy to hack, but uses old Python idioms and could do with some refactoring (PEP-8 zealots are sure to cringe as they read through the code -- I know I find it hideous, but it was a quick hack and has been working reliably for me for over two years now).