OpenEuphoria

Re: Do it yourself! :-)

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> Dec 18, 2005
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Alex Chamberlain wrote:

> I was wondering what the features will be? I use Thunderbird and the main
> downfall
> is that I can't minimise it to the system tray and when there is another
> message
> it does beep - will your RSS reader do this?

As I wrote in the first message of this thread, Thunderbird does read
RSS feeds on my system *not reliably*. This is the main disadvantage,
of course. For instance, Thunderbird here does not read the feed
<http://www.rapideuphoria.com/usercont.xml> at all. Now with my
programm 'rss2mail' I get it (of course), and it's really nice to have.
BTW: Thanks, Rob and Junko! 

There are other points ... And generally speaking, why should it be
necessary to have a "special" program in order to read RSS feeds. I like
it much more, when I can use any e-mail program to read RSS feeds.
This is not even necessary. Currently you can read the output of
'rss2mail' with any "viewing program" or e.g. with Notepad. This might
be subject to change in the future, though (due to Quoted-Printable
encoded header fields or something).

Also for instance, in the appropriate situation 'rss2mail' will show
this message:
| The following RSS feed(s) consist completely of new items.
| You probably have missed some items, so you might want to
| visit the concerning website(s) in order to read them.
| Check the channel(s) more frequently to avoid this problem.
| ...

I don't think that Thunderbird can do so.

However 'rss2mail' never beeps currently. It is in a very early
pre-alpha stage. When it is more mature, I'll probably send the source
code to the User Contributions page. Then (according to the license that
I'll choose) you probably can make your own changes.

( Probably, much earlier Pete will release an Edita version with such a
  functionality.  )

Regards,
   Juergen

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