Freshmeat Newsletter (Draft)

This document describes briefly how to handle the informative newsletter from freshmeat.

The procmail recipe

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* ^TOfreshmeat-news@freshmeat.net
| splitfmnews | formail -ds cat >>announces.spool

The perl script splitfmnews

splitfmnews splits the freshmeat newsletter in the individual entries. For each entry it generates a mail with the original headers by replacing the subject with the subject of the entry and the body with the entry itself. If the newsletter conflicts with the known format or another error occurs, a error message is generated and the original message will be included too.

Current version is 0.2 (released 13.January 1999).


Written by Stefan Hornburg <racke@gundel.han.de>
Translated from freshmeat.tcl by Info Prism's sgml2html v0.0.6
Last modified 14 January 1999