hi, i was wondering if there's any way by which I could set up a list on
 Sourcehut lists that gets updated everytime I publish a new post? that
 way anyone that wants to subscribe to my posts via email can
 subscribe to the sourcehur list and gets an html email of the post. I've
 seen something similar done
 (https://ploum.net/2022-10-21-managing-mailing-list.html) 
but i don't get how their set up works. 

any help?

On Wed Apr 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM EDT, Brihadeesh wrote:
> hi, i was wondering if there's any way by which I could set up a list on
>  Sourcehut lists that gets updated everytime I publish a new post? that
>  way anyone that wants to subscribe to my posts via email can
>  subscribe to the sourcehur list and gets an html email of the post. I've
>  seen something similar done
>  (https://ploum.net/2022-10-21-managing-mailing-list.html) 
> but i don't get how their set up works. 
>
> any help?

Perhaps you can send mail from a builds.sr.ht runner? Not sure. If that
is possible, then you could look into SMTP clients that can run in that
environment (like msmtp?) and add relevant e-mail account secrets to
your builds.sr.ht account. Then add an item to your CI script to send
an email to the list.

Turning the idea on its head, I blog (rarely) by sending an email to my sr.ht mailing list, the blog composer being a subscriber of said list which performs the necessary publishing actions when an email is received. I wrote tersely about it here, happy to be contacted off-list if you'd rather

https://ols.wtf/blog/meta-a-blog-post-about-this-blog.html

> you could look into SMTP clients that can run in that
> environment (like msmtp?) and add relevant e-mail account secrets to
> your builds.sr.ht account. Then add an item to your CI script to send
> an email to the list.

that's what I had in mind but I'm not too clear on how to go about it

> happy to be contacted off-list if you'd rather

great! although, this is somewhat the opposite of what I'm looking for, I have a feeling I could maybe make this work!

I'll work this out a bit and maybe drop you an email soon

On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 02:19:37PM +0000, Brihadeesh wrote:
> hi, i was wondering if there's any way by which I could set up a list on
>  Sourcehut lists that gets updated everytime I publish a new post?

I have a question about the problem you are trying to solve. What's the
real problem? Don't you want RSS instead?

  
>  What's the real problem? Don't you want RSS instead?

i want both. I've set up an RSS feed but want to add a mailing list subscription system for the people that don't use RSS readers. i still have a lot of friends who don't know what RSS even is