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MrPostman currently supports the following webmail provider

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RSS feeds: Configuration files for popular feeds can be found here (for details see below):
- CNN
- BBC
- USA Today
- New York Times
- heise.de
- kurier.at
- Developer News

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Simple script for use with e.g. a POP to HTTP proxy like mail.php. See below for details.

If you enter the URL of this page in the Generic module settings of MrPostman as "Update URL(s)", clicking the update button in MrPostman will automatically download newer scripts to your computer.

If you are always online, when you start MrPostman, you could alternatively set the "Script directory" of the Generic module settings to the URL of this page and thus use these scripts directly.

RSS

This script overcomes the problem of other RSS readers that you have to be online to read the full article. It reads the RSS file and follows the links to the full articles. It extracts the relevant article text (without the navigation, ...), removes advertisements and packages the text and - if desired - all article pictures into a message for your email client. You can then easily read the article offline while e.g. traveling to work with your notebook and are not distracted by advertisements.

In order to configure a new RSS feed, you only have to provide a property file with the URL to the RSS feed and the regular expression(s) to extract the pure article from the HTML pages and to remove advertisements.

If the property file is rss_xxx.properties and you want to get the feed [yyy] configured within, you specify the following as user name in your email client:

xxx-yyy@rss

If you only specify

xxx@rss

all feeds from the configuration file are retrieved (this can be used to create a personal feed file). You can also retrieve multiple feeds at once by separating them with a dot in the user name:

xxx1-yyy1.xxx2-yyy2.xxx3@rss

In MrPostman's RSS feed module page you can configure the directory with your feed descriptions and whether you want to have pictures downloaded.

Currently you have to download the feed descriptions manually from this page and put them into a sub directory "rss" in your MrPostman folder (or change the directory to the download location in your MrPostman's RSS feed module page).

mail.php

By use of this php script and the simple.script you can access POP accounts (without web access) through a firewall blocking the POP ports.

You have to deploy mail.php on a web server supporting PHP (with IMAP support).

To use it with a POP server "pop.myserver.com" and a login "username",

configure the module simple in MrPostman with the URL of the script and the popserver "pop.myserver.com",
create a new account in your email client, using MrPostman (default localhost:11110) as your pop server and "username@pop.myserver.com" as username (and your password for your POP account)

If your username includes an "@", replace it with ".AT.".

A lot of POP servers limit the number of logins per time period. As mail.php logs in for each request (message overview, then each message), you have to properly configure the delay time in the simple.script module settings and the time between message checks of your email client.