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rss2imap
Python2013–2023
rcarmo / rss2imap

rss2imap

An adaptation of rss2mail that uses IMAP directly

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An adaptation of rss2mail that uses IMAP directly

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year10 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-06-25 14:40:33 UTC to 2023-04-28 07:52:24 UTC.

0122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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rcarmo·Apr 28, 2023
It was actually a pretty decent thing if you set up a dedicated account (I used to maintain rss2mail and https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap). I still have archived posts in MIME format, complete with images, etc. Amazing for archival purposes. The tricky thing is actually dealing with title-only feeds - these days apps like Reeder will fetch a readable version of posts automatically, and I never got around to implementing that in earnest.
In Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
rcarmo·May 17, 2021
There are four things I quite enjoyed creating, in no particular order: - https://github.com/rcarmo/pngcanvas because there was nothing similar that ran on Google App Engine - https://github.com/rcarmo/imapbackup because I needed a migration tool from Sun IMS to Exchange - https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap because it helped me survive well beyond Google Reader for a long time - https://github.com/piku/piku because it enabled me to automate away 99% of my non-Docker deployments and is a lot more fun than Kubernetes on low-end standalone boxes There’s also my blog engine (https://github.com/rcarmo/sushy), but that is in a state of flux right now and I haven’t published the new source yet.
In Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
rcarmo·Jun 19, 2020
Reeder on iOS and Feedly as a back-end. I don’t read news any other way, although I maintained this for a while: https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap Edit: I use Reeder because I can pull in articles in “Reader view” from obnoxious title-only feeds with a single tap. Don’t do those, post full articles or I most likely will keep looking for alternatives to your content...
In Ask HN: How do you RSS?
rcarmo·Mar 31, 2018
I’ve pretty settled on using Feedly and Reeder in iOS, even though I experimented with RSS via IMAP[1] for a fairly long time. I zip through 1000+ news items a day over breakfast in this way, and my only real gripes are duplicated postings (which are usually best solved by careful handpicking of news sources) and the lack of a decent backlog/archival feature (I settled on Pocket for that). On and off, I try to build my own “most relevant/trending/hot items” feed via NLTK, but topics of interest vary too quickly in out industry for proper training... [1]: https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap
In It's time to head back to RSS?
rcarmo·Dec 20, 2015
I have a fair amount of code that people can re-use to build their own aggregators, since I did a number of experiments when Google Reader died. One was a Fever clone that had a number of strategies for doing parallel fetching: - https://github.com/rcarmo/bottle-fever Andrea Peltrin took that and evolved it into Coldsweat: https://github.com/passiomatic/coldsweat - which I recommend if you want a web UI. I did a number of other things, but eventually went back to what I used _before_ Google Reader: e-mail. I was one of the contributors for http://newspipe.sourceforge.net/, and after getting bottle-fever going I decided to investigate the state of the art and did a quick fork of rss2email that injected messages into an IMAP store instead of sending them via SMTP, to avoid spam traps. It was a quick hack, but it allowed me to read feeds usi
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ng any mobile IMAP client, and a friend eventually did a Go version, which I've also tweaked to my liking: - https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap (Python) - https://github.com/rcarmo/go-rss2imap (Go) Any of the above are likely to save people a fair amount of time (do bear in mind that the Python version was a hack atop code that was written by Aaron Swartz a decade ago, and it shows its age). These days I ended up going back to Feedly, simply because I have to use Windows, the Web UI is good enough and there are lots of good clients for the platforms I use (NextGen, Reeder, etc.) Plus I realised that trying to archive stuff from hundreds of feeds was somewhat pointless -- the stuff I really want to keep around goes into Pocket or OneNote, and that's that. Edit: Also, here are some notes from 2008 on Bayesian classification and its effectiveness: http://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2008/01/27/2203#an-update-on-...
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