feed2imap(1)

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💖 feed2imap — the manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, welcome to feed2imap(1), from the General Commands Manual section of the manual-page cinematic universe 🎬✨ buckle up, this one's a baddie.

🦋 NAME 🦋

feed2imap — a clever RSS/ATOM feed aggregator. yes. that's the whole name. she's giving "does exactly what it says on the tin" 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

feed2imap [OPTIONS]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. options only, no positional arguments, we keep it clean 🧚

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so feed2imap is an RSS/Atom feed aggregator. here's the little routine she does: first she downloads your feeds (over HTTP or HTTPS, we're secure in this house 🔒), and then she uploads them to a folder you specified on an IMAP mail server. so your feeds literally become mail. iconic behavior honestly 👑

and then? you get to read them however you want: with Mutt, with Evolution, with Mozilla Thunderbird, or even with a webmail. whatever your little heart desires, no gatekeeping 💖

now, the flags. she has a few and they're all lowkey useful:

  • -V, --version — shows you the version info. just a lil "hi, this is who I am" moment 🎀
  • -v, --verbose — runs in verbose mode, aka she tells you everything she's doing. chatty queen 🗣️✨
  • -c, --rebuild-cache — rebuilds the cache. she fetches all the items and marks them as already seen. super handy if you, um, lost your .feed2imap.cache file 🙈 (no judgement, we've all been there)
  • -f, --config file — use another config file instead of the default. and the default, for the record, is ~/.feed2imaprc. write that down bestie 📝
ngl, if you're the type to lose cache files, -c is about to become your roman empire. but like, a helpful one 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

and the extended fam, the whole friend group, the squad:

all of them ate, fr fr 🔥

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright (C) 2005 Lucas Nussbaum lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net

and now the legal bit, but make it dramatic because it matters, bestie, do not skip this:

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

no cap, that warranty disclaimer is doing the heavy lifting. read it. respect it. 💀

and that's the page, bestie 🎀 this manual page came straight out of the General Commands Manual, dated Jul 25, 2005 — vintage, retro, still slaying. mwah 💅💖🦋

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