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1.8 KiB
45 lines
1.8 KiB
Kataribe Readme
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Kataribe is a more or less simple script to turn your Mbox into an RSS file,
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so that you may display the subject and from in your Knewsticker. This
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script uses a set of Perl modules to access the mail box. The standard mail
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box format which I assume is the classic UNIX Mbox format. The script is
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rather flexible though and if you wish to adjust the script to fit your
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mailbox's needs, please be my guest. You can find a list of classes, which
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are supported by the module here:
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http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=Mail%3A%3ABox
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The following list of modules must be installed in order for this script to
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work:
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Data::Dumper;
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Date::Format;
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Mail::Box;
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Mail::Box::Manager;
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MIME::Words
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Make sure, that you set the $limit variable in the top section of the
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script. Parsing a Mbox file is not highly efficient and parsing a huge Mbox
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file over and over can be very time consuming. This might cause the script
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to time out and not report any data back to KNewsticker. By default only the
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_newest_ ten messages are read and displayed as RSS.
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This script tries to be smart about the From header, yet might not always
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guess right. The script assumes to find a from in the form of:
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A name <a@email.de>
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It will try to display the A name part in Knewsticker along with the subject
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of the mail messages. If the script cannot find a name, it will try to use
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the email address instead.
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I realize, that there are still several issues, which could be adressed and
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the script surely is not 100% feature complete, but it is operational for
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those, who wish to have a quick overview about the new mail, which might
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have been dumped into their local account using fetchmail or any other
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delivering service.
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This IS a work in progress, it has been tested by the author but not by any
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other, so please make sure to do so and report back to bio@gmx.de. Thank
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you.
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