Groups.io Mailing Lists

Some projects use Groups.io to manage their mailing lists, such as new projects from the Linux Foundation like ELISA and ZephyrOS. If you don’t want to subscribe to them with your email, and keep your workflow using good old mailboxes and lei, you need to do a bit of setup. I will use rss2email for this.

mkdir -p ~/Mail/elisa-archive/{cur,new,tmp}
r2e new dummy@localhost

Add the following to .config/rss2email.cfg:

[DEFAULT]
date-header = True
email-protocol = maildir
imap-mailbox = INBOX
maildir-path = /home/user/Mail/elisa-archive
maildir-mailbox =

Setup mailbox:

r2e add elisa-devel https://lists.elisa.tech/g/devel/rss
r2e run
lei import maildir:$HOME/Mail/elisa-archive

Now you can use any mail reader on ~Mail/elisa-archive, like neomutt.

You can add multiple feeds in the same mailbox, for example:

r2e add elisa-safety https://lists.elisa.tech/g/safety-architecture/rss
r2e add elisa-automotive https://lists.elisa.tech/g/automotive/rss
r2e add elisa-aerospace https://lists.elisa.tech/g/aerospace/rss
r2e run

If you want to remove a feed, do this instead of modifying the config file:

r2e deletel elisa-devel

This is needed because rss2email keeps a database of the feeds, and it needs to be updated to register your change.