Feedmailer aka. the lone gunman - A Feed-Aggregator (RSS/Atom to email gateway)

Topics: atom rss feedreader feed-aggregator feed-aggregator-daemon feedmailer

Feed aggregator that queries RSS/Atom feeds and delivers new articles by email. Using the Sendmail-Commandline-Interface and optional a Cronjob.

No need for a feedreader; use your email client!

But a 2nd main-feature is the option to run hooks. With Feedmailer you can execute any command as a hook for an article.

Reqirements

The Perl programming language and some CPAN modules see Makefile.PL and if a modul is not packaged in Debian see below.

Installation

Install build dependencies:

apt-get install build-essential libexpat1-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev zlib1g-dev

To install Feedmailer in your home directory just run:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Or:

cpanm .

How to install a CPAN Perl module as a Debian package:

The following builds a package for a Perl CPAN module (Make sure you have the pkg-perl-tools package installed):

env DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="nocheck" cpan2deb <MODUL>

Or use the CPAN shell to install modules into youre home directory:

perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> notest install <MODUL…>

After installation add the following cronjob:

@daily feedmailer-cronjob

Or:

@monthly abos2config
@daily newspaper-cronjob

Commands

feedmailer (1p)         - sends RSS/ATOM feeds as mail or runs hooks
feedmailer-clean (1p)   - cleans the cache.json file
feedmailer-cronjob (1p) - schicke Reporter los die Nachrichten holen

Scripting

Set hook:

hook = perl -E 'print "%l\n";'

Run Feedmailer:

feedmailer-cronjob -c ~/.feedmailer/subdir/

This should work with the default Feedmailer AppArmor profile.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Feedmailer is free software. See COPYING and http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html for more information.