rbielak / rss2email

An adaptation of rss2mail that uses IMAP directly

rss2imap

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:

• E-mail is injected directly via IMAP (so no delays or hassles with spam filters)
• Feeds can be grouped into folders -- no inbox clutter!
• Generates E-mail headers for threading (so a post that references another will show up as a thread on decent MUAs, and posts from the same feed will be part of the same thread)

Next Steps:

• Automatic message categorization using Bayesian filtering and NLTK
• Automatic expunging of read items after a specified period (unless they're flagged/starred)
• 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• Figure out a nice way to do favicons (X-Face is obsolete, and so is X-Image-URL)
• Refactor this as a multi-threaded app with a SQLite feed store

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).