Hi,
On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 at 23:04, Mekeor Melire <mek...@posteo.de> wrote:
> you might want to import a mailing-list-archive into mu4e. E.g. because
> debbugs.el is slow, you might want to import the archives of the
> guix-patches mailing list. This is how to do so.
Personally, I use “git clone” from a public-inbox instance [1].
git clone --mirror https://yhetil.org/guix-patches/1 \
guix-patches/git/1.git
where ’1’ can be also replace by ’0’ for the very old ones.
Then the conversion from Git commit to maildir is done by a small script
[2], where all the job reads:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
# Extract the message from each commit in the range and store it
# in the Maildir for notmuch to consume.
$git rev-list $range | while read sha; do
# XXXX: fatal: path 'm' does not exist in <commit>
# and it can also raise issues with notmuch, as:
# Note: Ignoring non-mail file: $maildir/new/$sha
$git show $sha:m > $maildir/new/$sha
done
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
(Maybe better could be done and more robust are around.)
Even, the same can be used for reading Guix mailing lists. New messages
are gotten with “git fetch”.
1: <https://yhetil.org/guix-patches/>
2:
<https://gitlab.com/zimoun/my-conf/-/blob/master/.local/bin/sync-public-inboxes.sh#L60-67>
Cheers,
simon
