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Digitally Adrift

I’m on to figuring out the last piece of my self- hosted RSS to read later…

I’m on to figuring out the last piece of my self- hosted RSS to read later setup. I need to get a solution in place for handling email newsletters.

Kill-the-newsletter is what I’m going to try. It gives you unique email addresses that it converts into RSS feeds. They have their own managed option but I want to go fully self-hosted if possible.

Unfortunately Yunohost doesn’t have kill-the-newsletter as an easy install option. So I’m going to try and go through the deployment steps from kill-the-newsletter’s docs.

It doesn’t seem too bad. Just a couple DNS entries to get mail pointed at the right place then updating some config files to tell kill-the-newsletter what domain to use.

It looks like their examples all use Caddy where Yunohost uses Nginx (which I’m more familiar with anyway) so I might hit a few bumps getting that sorted.

If things end up getting too difficult I might try to deploy it as a custom app through Yunohost but they have a bunch of disclaimers about not doing that. So we’ll see.