For a while I've been using the RSS reader built into the Thunderbird mail client. I thought it was kind of cool how it made blog posts look like e-mail messages. But why settle for kind of like e-mail when you can have the real thing?

So I wrote a Perl module: Tmetic::Feed::Manager. Just download it, untar it, then do the usual perl Makefile.PL && make && make test && make install. You may need to install some prerequisite modules like DBD::SQLite, Text::Template, and XML::RSS::Parser; the build process will let you know what you're missing. Except sendmail. If you don't have a working sendmail in your $PATH (whether it's actually qmail or postfix or the real thing) you will run into trouble.

This is an initial release and has some limitations, the biggest being it can only deal with RSS 2.0 feeds; no RSS 0.9x or Atom yet. Enjoy if possible and applicable, and send your thoughts (all of them) to me.