Email to RSS (or other option)

[russr19146]

Hello,

I hope this is the right spot for this question.

We recently started using a new News Aggregation tool that allows you to add content via RSS feed. Unfortunately some of the content we want to use only comes via Email.

I know that Wordpress and other wikis have tools that convert emails to files to RSS feeds and i looked around but could not find a standalone tool to do this

Does anyone know how this can be accomplished or another way to do this?

Appreciate any help
Thanks

Russ

 

[carnageX]

Are you looking for this to be a live/"as emails roll in" feed, or a manual run where you load a utility with emails and send those to the feed?

Haven't looked into any existing utilities, but conforming to the XML spec to an email wouldn't be hard:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
 <title>RSS Title</title>
 <description>This is an example of an RSS feed</description>
 <link>http://www.example.com/main.html</link>
 <lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:01:00 +0000 </lastBuildDate>
 <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
 <ttl>1800</ttl>

 <item>
  <title>Example entry</title>
  <description>Here is some text containing an interesting description.</description>
  <link>http://www.example.com/blog/post/1</link>
  <guid isPermaLink="true">7bd204c6-1655-4c27-aeee-53f933c5395f</guid>
  <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
 </item>

</channel>
</rss>