w3mail

program to send a web page by email
git clone https://logand.com/git/w3mail.git/
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      1 $ echo >~/.w3mail/in; tail -f ~/.w3mail/in | xargs -n1 -P20 w3mail 2>>~/.w3mail/log &
      2 $ tcpserver 127.0.0.1 3333 dirpop3d ~/.w3mail/inbox &
      3 
      4 w3mail
      5 ======
      6 
      7 Written by Tomas Hlavaty <tom-at-logand.com> in 2010.
      8 
      9 Introduction
     10 ============
     11 
     12 w3mail is a program that sends a web page by email.
     13 
     14 There are many ways of browsing the Web.  In most cases, I prefer
     15 using my email reader for managing web pages I read.  No excessive
     16 amount of open tabs in my web browser, smaller memory usage, better
     17 readibility and powerful management of unread and read web pages,
     18 their marking, expiry and deletion.  It's asynchronous and the actual
     19 reading takes minimum keystrokes and no aiming with mouse at all.  I'm
     20 also using the excelent org-mode http://orgmode.org/ on daily basis
     21 and my email reader Gnus is very well integrated with it.
     22 
     23    http://lwn.net/Articles/262570/
     24 
     25       To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails
     26       the page back to me.  It is very efficient use of my time, but
     27       it is slow in real time.  -- rms
     28 
     29 Dependencies
     30 ============
     31 
     32 Linux only.
     33 
     34 Runtime depends on: wget, md5sum, sendmail (mailutils).
     35 
     36 Build depends on: git, gcc.
     37 
     38 Download
     39 ========
     40 
     41 Clone the git repository:
     42 
     43    $ git clone http://logand.com/git/w3mail.git
     44 
     45 Building
     46 ========
     47 
     48 Switch to the new directory and make the w3mail executable:
     49 
     50    $ cd w3mail
     51    $ make
     52 
     53 Configuration
     54 =============
     55 
     56 The command-line arguments of w3mail are: [[cmd from to host] url].
     57 
     58 In case all arguments are supplied, no configuration is necessary.
     59 
     60 A configuration file ~/.w3mail needs to be created in case w3mail is
     61 called with one argument only.  The configuration file must contain
     62 four lines, each line for one omited argument in the command-line
     63 order.
     64 
     65 --- start of ~/.w3mail ---
     66 ssh user.name@host.name -e none /usr/lib/sendmail -t
     67 email@address
     68 email@address
     69 host.name
     70 --- end of ~/.w3mail ---
     71 
     72 Change the user name, host name and email addresses to suit your
     73 needs.  You could set the first line to "sendmail -t" if you have
     74 sendmail installed locally.  In my case, I use ssh to my server and
     75 invoke sendmail there.
     76 
     77 It is convenient to put the w3mail program somewhere reachable from
     78 $PATH, e.g. create a symlink to the w3mail executable file in your
     79 ~/bin directory (if the ~/bin directory is in your $PATH) or add the
     80 w3mail git directory into your $PATH.
     81 
     82 Invocation from shell
     83 =====================
     84 
     85 a) Send single web page:
     86 
     87    $ w3mail 'http://logand.com/'
     88 
     89 b) Send many web pages:
     90 
     91    First save the URLs into a file, one URL per line.  Then run:
     92 
     93    $ cat file | w3mail
     94 
     95    Or much faster in parallel with maximum 20 processes:
     96 
     97    $ cat file | xargs -n1 -P20 w3mail
     98 
     99 c) Run w3mail in background
    100 
    101    First start the server:
    102 
    103    $ echo >~/.w3mail.in; tail -f ~/.w3mail.in | xargs -n1 -P20 w3mail 2>>~/.w3mail.log &
    104 
    105    Then request sending web pages by running:
    106 
    107    $ echo 'url' >>~/.w3mail.in
    108 
    109    or
    110 
    111    $ cat file >>~/.w3mail.in
    112 
    113    Watch the log for errors:
    114 
    115    $ tail -f ~/.w3mail.log
    116 
    117 Using w3mail with Emacs
    118 =======================
    119 
    120 Put the following emacs-lisp code into your ~/.emacs file:
    121 
    122 --- begin cut---
    123 (defun w3mail (url &optional new-window)
    124   (interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "URL: "))
    125   (shell-command (format "w3mail '%s' &" (browse-url-encode-url url))))
    126 
    127 (defun w3m-w3mail (url)
    128   (interactive (list (w3m-input-url nil nil nil nil 'feeling-lucky)))
    129   (when (and (stringp url)
    130              (not (interactive-p)))
    131     (setq url (w3m-canonicalize-url url)))
    132   (set-text-properties 0 (length url) nil url)
    133   (setq url (w3m-uri-replace url))
    134   (unless (or (w3m-url-local-p url)
    135               (string-match "\\`about:" url))
    136     (w3m-string-match-url-components url)
    137     (setq url (concat
    138                (w3m-url-transfer-encode-string
    139                 (substring url 0 (match-beginning 8))
    140                 (or w3m-current-coding-system
    141                     w3m-default-coding-system))
    142                (if (match-beginning 8)
    143                    (concat "#" (match-string 9 url))
    144                    ""))))
    145   (w3mail url))
    146 
    147 (global-set-key [f5] 'w3m-w3mail)
    148 --- end cut ---
    149 
    150 Pressing f5 key will ask for the URL of the web page to be send.
    151 
    152 It is better to run the w3mail as a server as mentioned above and then
    153 it is possible to replace the "w3mail '%s' &" parameter in w3mail
    154 emacs-lisp function by "echo '%s' >>~/.w3mail.in".  This won't block
    155 emacs at all.
    156 
    157 Licence
    158 =======
    159 
    160 GPLv3+
    161 
    162 Feedback
    163 ========
    164 
    165 Please send me an email.