This is a Sieve script I've added to my Fastmail email service to redirect my Patreon emails to my Feedbin RSS reader service.
This now means I can catch up with the creators I'm supporting in a linear message format, with separate feeds per creator, in my own choice of phone and desktop apps again!
- You'll need to have Fastmail, or another email service which offers custom Sieve scripting for incoming emails.
- Get your Feedbin Newsletter email address. You can find it at https://feedbin.com/settings.
- Find your Sieve rule editor. On Fastmail it's at https://www.fastmail.com/settings/rules.
- Paste the contents of
Patreon Mail Forwarder.sieve
into your email service's rules. You'll need to ensure theregex
extension is available and loaded (withrequire ["regex"];
at the top of the file). - Ensure Patreon is configured to send emails from the creators you want fed into your RSS reader
- Fastmail host a Sieve testing tool, which requires your rule (with explicit extension loading! See item 4 above)
- You need to get a plain-text copy of your email
- On macOS Mail that's available by viewing your message and selecting View -> Message -> All Source, or pressing ⌥⌘U
- In Fastmail this is available by selecting More -> Show Raw Message.
- Notably, Sieve's regular expression engine is basic POSIX regular expressions, so it lacks a lot of modern conveniences, including selectors for whitespace characters. It can take some fiddling to get it working, especially on emoji!