This project is unmaintained

Please look at Universal Aggregator for its successor.

Presentation

maildir-feed is a daemon which fetchs RSS/Atom feeds and put them directly into a Maildir mailbox.

Setup

First, install the executables :

go get github.com/sloonz/maildir-feed/maildir-feed

go get github.com/sloonz/maildir-feed/maildir-feed-rss

This will download latest version, compile it, and put it in $GOPATH/bin. You can then copy or link the two executables wherever you want (/usr/local/bin, $HOME/local/share… Wherever, really, the only restriction is that the two executables must be in the same directory).

Next, create the maildir in which the mails will be put :

mkdir $HOME/Maildir-feeds

Create the cache directory :

mkdir $HOME/.cache/rss2maildir

Then, create the configuration file:

mkdir $HOME/.config/rss2maildir

vim $HOME/.config/rss2maildir/feeds.yaml

The config can also be a JSON file feeds.json. In case both files exist, the YAML config is preferred.

Usage

/path/to/executables/maildir-feed

Daemon will not fork, you have to do it yourself or use a daemon manager like stop-start-daemon. By default, the maildir directory wil be assumed to be $HOME/Maildir-feeds ; you can change it by passing it as an argument to the command :

/path/to/executables/maildir-feed /path/to/maildir/folder

Configuration example

IT:
  Slashdot:
  - http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotLinux
  - http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotHardware
  Ars Technica: http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/everything
Fun:
  SMBC: http://feeds.feedburner.com/smbc-comics/PvLb
  XKCD: http://xkcd.com/rss.xml