Information about the package, rss2email, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The rss2email package is designed for, Deliver news from RSS feeds to your smtp server as text or html.
Package Name:
rss2email
Summary:
Deliver news from RSS feeds to your smtp server as text or html
Description:
rss2email lets you subscribe to a list of XML newsfeeds (RSS or Atom). It can parse them regularly with the help of cron and send new items to you by email. A HTML mail will be send in the default configuration to the local smtp server. See the man page r2e for details how to set rss2email up.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
2.66
Release:
1.el6
Size:
21 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3
Control the rss2email package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install rss2email
This command will install rss2email on the server.
yum remove rss2email
This command will un-install rss2email on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove rss2email, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove rss2email
This command will un-install rss2email on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove rss2email when using the -y flag.
yum update rss2email
This command will update rss2email to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove rss2email, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update rss2email
This command will update rss2email to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove rss2email when using the -y flag.
yum info rss2email
This command will show you core information about the rss2email package.
yum deplist rss2email
This command will show you the dependencies for rss2email. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update rss2email
This command will check if there is an update waiting on rss2email. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.