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Email interface

To use the ERA email interface, send an email to era@indecorous.com containing commands. You can send more than one command in each email (e.g. you can subscribe to multiple feeds in a single mail). Each command needs to be on its own line.

ERA won't respond unless it gets valid commands.

For most commands, ERA will then send you an ID number, which you send back to confirm the commands (so that someone can't impersonate you).

ERA identifies you by your email address, so you always need to send commands from the same email address.

ERA likes plain text emails. HTML emails and other formatted emails might not work properly.

This interface is fairly stable, but if you have any suggestions for improvements (either to the interface or the documentation) please email era.info@indecorous.com. Feedback is greatly appreciated. Please DO NOT email commands to this address. Commands should be sent to era@indecorous.com.

ERA email interface commands

(Note: things in square brackets should be replaced by real URLs, usernames, etc. The square brackets themselves shouldn't be in commands.)

help

Get this help text (no confirmation needed)

account [username]

Get an account

[username]: the username you want for your account (this will be used when the web interface is functional)

You need an account before you can subscribe to feeds. You can include subscibe commands in the same email as your account request.

list

Get a list of feeds you're subscribed to (no confirmation needed)

subscribe [url] [hour (, hour ...) ]

Subscribe to a feed

[url]: URL of the RSS file you want to subscribe to
[hour]: 0-23

Send a comma separated list of the hours when you want to be emailed, e.g.
   subscribe http://example.com/feed.rss 0,6,12,18
will produce emails at midnight, 6am, midday, and 6pm. Each one will contain the updates for the previous six hours.

If you don't specify any hours, you'll get mailed every hour.

To alter your subscription times, just send another subscription request with the new times - these will over-write your old times.

Times are GMT.

unsubscribe [url]

Unsubscribe from a feed