diff -ruN mailman.orig/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py
--- mailman.orig/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py	2014-02-03 08:06:48.000000000 -0500
+++ mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py	2014-06-01 13:45:55.000000000 -0400
@@ -1102,6 +1102,101 @@
         self.depth = depth
         self.write_index_entry(article)
 
+
+
+    def RSS(self):
+        """ Generates a valid RSS feed for mails in self.database
+        """
+        try:
+            import datetime
+            import PyRSS2Gen
+            import hashlib
+        except Exception, e:
+            syslog('error', 'error loading libraries for RSS generation: %s', e)
+            return 0
+ 
+        mlist = self.maillist
+
+        mailitems = []
+        try:
+            date, msgid = self.database.dateIndex.first()
+            mailitems.append(msgid)
+        except KeyError:
+            pass
+
+        while 1:
+            try:
+                date, msgid = self.database.dateIndex.next()
+                mailitems.append(msgid)
+                mailitems = mailitems[-mm_cfg.RSS_NUM_MAILS:]
+            except KeyError:
+                break
+
+        # Generate URLs for the messages
+        baseurl = mlist.GetBaseArchiveURL()
+        for i in range(len(mailitems)):
+            article     = mailitems[i] = self.database.getArticle(self.archive, mailitems[i])
+            vol_name    = self.dateToVolName(float(article.date))
+            filename    = article.filename
+            article.url = '%s/%s/%s' % (baseurl, vol_name, filename)
+            
+            #Read the body again, it's not loaded in cache.. ticket: 
+            #http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=835332&group_id=103
+            sf = '%s/%s/%s' % (self.basedir, vol_name, filename)
+            try:
+               f = open(sf)
+               article.loadbody_fromHTML(f)
+               f.close()
+            except:
+               pass
+
+
+	class MMPyRSS2Gen(PyRSS2Gen.RSSItem):
+            #Add own values to our PyRSS2Gen class
+            def add_values(self, key, val):
+                if not hasattr(self, 'attr'):
+                    self.attr = {}
+                self.attr[key] = val
+
+            def publish_extensions(self, handler):
+                 for key in self.attr.keys():
+                       PyRSS2Gen._opt_element(handler, key, self.attr[key])
+                       
+        def format_date(l):
+            try:
+               lt = time.localtime(int(l))
+               x = time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT", lt)
+            except Exception, e:
+               syslog('error', 'error loading date for RSS generation: %s',l, e)
+               x = datetime.datetime.now()
+            return x
+        
+        items = []
+        for article in mailitems:
+            item = MMPyRSS2Gen(
+                    title       = CGIescape(article.subject),
+                    link        = CGIescape(article.url),
+                    author      = CGIescape(article.decoded.get('author')),
+                    description = article._get_body(),
+                    guid        = PyRSS2Gen.Guid(CGIescape(article.url)),
+                    pubDate     = format_date(article.date),                    
+                )
+            item.add_values("thread", CGIescape(article.threadKey))
+            #print "article _message_id %s" % article._message_id
+            item.add_values("msgid", hashlib.md5(article.msgid).hexdigest())
+            items.append(item)
+                
+        rss = PyRSS2Gen.RSS2(
+            title         = CGIescape(mlist.real_name),
+            link          = CGIescape(mlist.GetScriptURL('listinfo', absolute=1)),
+            description   = CGIescape(mlist.description),
+            lastBuildDate = datetime.datetime.now(),
+            items         = items,
+            )
+        return rss        
+
+
+
     def write_TOC(self):
         self.sortarchives()
         omask = os.umask(002)
@@ -1112,6 +1207,21 @@
         toc.write(self.html_TOC())
         toc.close()
 
+        if (self.maillist.real_name.lower() not in [list.lower() for list in mm_cfg.RSS_LISTS]):
+           #Don't need to update RSS
+           return;
+
+        try:
+           rssf = open(os.path.join(self.basedir,'rss.xml'),'w')
+        finally:
+           os.umask(omask)
+        rss = self.RSS()
+        if (rss):
+           rss.write_xml(rssf)
+           rssf.close()
+
+
+
     def write_article(self, index, article, path):
         # called by add_article
         omask = os.umask(002)
diff -ruN mailman.orig/Mailman/Defaults.py mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py
--- mailman.orig/Mailman/Defaults.py	2014-02-03 08:06:48.000000000 -0500
+++ mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py	2014-06-01 13:48:43.000000000 -0400
@@ -428,6 +428,12 @@
 # publically available?
 PUBLIC_MBOX = No
 
+# Lists for which the RSS will be generated. 
+RSS_LISTS = ['mailman',]
+
+# Mails included in the RSS
+RSS_NUM_MAILS = 250
+
 
 
 #####