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I just downloaded and installed Crazybob's FetchRSS app for receiving updates of RSS feeds. After a 3line modification, even my very strict email reader was able to show up the mails in a normal style. Bob told me that he will put this thing on sourceforge for OSS style development which is a good idea, because some things i would like to see in there. For example the first run of the app retrieves all defined RSS feeds and send emails for each and every item, a setting to disable this first mass mailing and only retrieve the updates would be useful, i received 600+ emails on the first run. (can you imagine how long it takes when you have a client side SMTP-Anti-Virus proxy :))

But asides from ideas for enhancements, thanks to bob that he does the initial coding of such a tool, i allready downloaded a perl tool which does the same, but hey, i am coding java and i dont want too much perl stuff on my server. Would take me hours to modify the simplest logic.