Hi Ricardo, et al,
On +2020-12-06 18:35:08 +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>
> Hi Lars,
>
> > currently mailbox files generated by mumi’s /raw/ endpoint are not usable
> > with
> > mutt, because the first line contains a “Received:” header and thus does not
> > start with the mandated “From …” banner.
>
> Does the equivalent mbox provided by the official Debbugs web interface
> work? This endpoint is called “raw” because it returns the plain email
> as I got it from Debbugs. It doesn’t seem right for me to manipulate it.
>
> --
> Ricardo
>
>
On a guix debbugs web page I observed the following:
The option to download a single bug report on a debbugs web page
as mbox seems to work fine.
E.g., the page with your report
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=38715#28
has a link
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?mbox=yes;msg=28;bug=38715
which one can save-as, resulting in file
bug_38715_message_28.mbox
which
mutt -f bug_38715_message_28.mbox
will show normally.
But I don't, e.g., know how to get all the debbugs guix bug reports for e.g.
December
the way I can for the regular mailing list archives -- does mumi do that?
-- e.g. like for bug-guix at
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/mbox/bug-guix/
where you can
wget -c https://lists.gnu.org/archive/mbox/bug-guix/2020-12
resulting in an mbx file
2020-12
which
mutt -Rf 2020-12
will open for you (I use -R for read-only)
The '-c' wget option tells wget just to download the new appended emails
if you already have the 2020-12 file in your current directory, so that's
economical :)
I follow half a dozen or so gnu mail lists that I don't subscribe to, and wget
-c
works fine on all of them.
The YYYY-MM format seems to be generated like "$(date '+%Y-%m')"
so it's easy to script urls for wget.
It might be nice for debbugs to synthesize cgi-equivalents to
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/mbox/bug-guix/2020-12
for lists that want it. Maybe by a debbugs name like
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/mbox/debbugs-guix/2020-12
and similarly for other bug-<list name> ?
Maybe it already exists, but it's not apparently listed at
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/
(though help-debbugs is, but that is a normal mailing list I think :)
Sorry if this is not on topic mumi per se, but it is about viewing
bug reports using mutt on mbox files :)
I don't use mumi, but if it doesn't have clean mbox as an output option,
I think it ought to be fixed :)
--
Regards,
Bengt Richter
