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Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a blog post) and email me the contents

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On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 03:01:14PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote:
>Does anybody know of a piece of software that you can give an URL to,
>and it will then fetch the url and email the contents to you?

This sounds like you want a www4mail server.

www4mail servers are (were? I'm not sure if any still exist) a gateway 
service intended for people with limited access (for example, the 
developing world, where I have seen instances of "weekly internet 
access": a man comes around on a motorbike carrying the internet).  The 
idea is that you send an email to, say www4mail@example.org with the 
contents "GET http://www.debian.org" and the www4mail server will fetch 
that page, render it as text (or, uniquely to www4mail servers) as a 
modified HTML page wherein links are 'defanged' and can be used to 
generate subsequent emails.

There's a nice article on www4mail at LinuxJournal 
https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3825.

>
>This could be a stand-alone app on the desktop, or a plug-in to a
>browser, or a web site, or some combo.  (I guess it could be a
>pipeline of curl and some mail program, but i'm afraid i'd just get
>piles of incomprehensible text.)
>
>I would plan on sending the mail to my gmail account (for searching
>and archival purposes).
>
>TIA for any clues.
>
>dan
>

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looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a blog  post) and email me the contents Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2016-11-05 23:10 +0100
  Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog  post) and email me the contents Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-11-06 02:00 +0100
  Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 02:30 +0100
  Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2016-11-06 03:00 +0100
    Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 03:50 +0100
      Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2016-11-06 20:10 +0100
        Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-06 21:00 +0100
      Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-11-07 19:30 +0100
      Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to  a blog post) and email me the contents davidson@freevolt.org - 2016-11-09 22:00 +0100
        Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to  a blog post) and email me the contents davidson@freevolt.org - 2016-11-09 22:10 +0100
        Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to  a blog post) and email me the contents davidson@freevolt.org - 2016-11-10 01:40 +0100
          Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 04:40 +0100
  Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents jeremy bentham <dnw@eskimo.com> - 2016-11-07 03:50 +0100
    Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents billwill onggo <billwill.onggo@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 04:50 +0100
  Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a  blog post) and email me the contents Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-11-07 13:20 +0100
  Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a blog post) and email me the contents Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-11-07 14:30 +0100

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