https://wiki.meurisse.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=rss2emailrss2email - Revision history2026-05-01T08:17:48ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.7https://wiki.meurisse.org/index.php?title=rss2email&diff=382&oldid=prevVincent: Created page with "[https://github.com/wking/rss2email/ rss2email] is a program that allows you to receive RSS/Atom feeds in you mailbox. == Prerequisite == You need a server that is able to ..."2016-06-05T14:54:13Z<p>Created page with "[https://github.com/wking/rss2email/ rss2email] is a program that allows you to receive RSS/Atom feeds in you mailbox. == Prerequisite == You need a server that is able to ..."</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[https://github.com/wking/rss2email/ rss2email] is a program that allows you to receive RSS/Atom feeds in you mailbox.<br />
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== Prerequisite ==<br />
You need a server that is able to [[Emails|send emails]].<br />
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== Install ==<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="console"><br />
# apt install rss2email<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
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== Configure ==<br />
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=== Create User ===<br />
It is possible to run rss2email as any user. However I find preferable to make it run as it's own user as, if a hacker manage to break in your rss2email, he won't be able to read your personal user files.<syntaxhighlight lang="console"><br />
# adduser --system --home /opt/rss2email --group rss2email<br />
Adding system user `rss2email' (UID 112) ...<br />
Adding new group `rss2email' (GID 117) ...<br />
Adding new user `rss2email' (UID 112) with group `rss2email' ...<br />
Creating home directory `/opt/rss2email' ...<br />
</syntaxhighlight>Assuming that you are the only user of rss2email on the server, we will make it always run as the rss2email user. Create file <code>/usr/local/bin/r2e</code><syntaxhighlight lang="sh"><br />
#!/bin/sh<br />
sudo -u rss2email /usr/bin/r2e "$@"<br />
</syntaxhighlight>and make it executable<syntaxhighlight lang="console"><br />
# chmod +x /usr/local/bin/r2e<br />
</syntaxhighlight>To make things even easier, you can run <code>visudo</code> and add the line (replace jdoe with your usename)<syntaxhighlight lang="sh"><br />
jdoe ALL=(rss2email)NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/r2e<br />
</syntaxhighlight>This allows your normal user to run the r2e command without any password prompt.<br />
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=== Create database ===<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="console"><br />
$ r2e new<br />
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=== Configuration option ===<br />
Edit file <code>/opt/rss2email/.config/rss2email.cfg</code> and change the following options<syntaxhighlight lang="ini"><br />
[DEFAULT]<br />
from = rss2email@example.org<br />
use-8bit = True<br />
date-header = True<br />
html-mail = True<br />
use-css = True<br />
css = body {<br />
font: 12pt Arial;<br />
background-color: #FAFAFA;<br />
}<br />
div#entry {<br />
padding: 1em;<br />
background-color: white;<br />
box-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);<br />
border-radius: 5px;<br />
}<br />
div#entry h1.header {<br />
margin-top: 0;<br />
font: 18pt Georgia, "Times New Roman";<br />
}<br />
div#entry a {<br />
text-decoration: none;<br />
color: #005EB8;<br />
}<br />
div#entry a:hover {<br />
color: #00A9E0;<br />
}<br />
div#entry blockquote {<br />
font-family: monospace;<br />
}<br />
img {<br />
max-width: 100%;<br />
height: auto;<br />
}<br />
div#entry .footer {<br />
margin-top: 2em;<br />
}<br />
div#entry .footer,<br />
div#entry .footer a {<br />
color: #AAAAAA;<br />
}<br />
div#entry .footer a:hover {<br />
text-decoration: underline;<br />
}<br />
div#entry .footer p {<br />
margin: 0;<br />
}<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
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=== Cron ===<br />
Make rss2email run once by hour by adding the following line in <code>/etc/crontab</code><syntaxhighlight lang="text"><br />
55 * * * * rss2email /usr/bin/r2e run<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
[[Category:Linux Server]]</div>Vincent