If you are not comfortable with using a feed aggregator to read your rss feeds or want to notify others, RSS2Email is a useful tool. It’s available as a debian package and the configuration is easy:
Create a new feed database:
./r2e new you@yourdomain.comSubscribe to some feeds:
./r2e add http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/rss2email/updates.rss…
When you run rss2email, it emails you about every story it hasn’t seen before. But the first time you run it, that will be every story. To avoid this, you can ask rss2email not to send you any stories the first time you run it:
./r2e run –no-sendThen later, you can ask it to email you new stories:
./r2e runYou probably want to set this up as a cron job or something.
Enjoy.
Newspipe is a very good alternative to rss2email. It has OPML-support and handles updated posts in a very intelligent manner. Although it doesn’t come as a debian package, I’d recommend that you take a look at it.
http://newspipe.sourceforge.net/
Thanks Benjamin. I just had a look at newspipe. It looks pretty powerful, but here’s the catch: for my purpose it’s probably to powerful. I use rss2email to send emails for 2 RSS feeds to a mailinglist. It took me 30sec to configure this with rss2email and I guess it would take a longer with newspipe, with editing an OPML file etc.. But it’s good to know that there are other solutions out there…