Joey Pabalinas <joeypabali...@gmail.com> wrote: > My only comment on the public-mailbox choice is that the documentation > is very sparse and erratic. Myself and a couple other people just > couldn't figure out how to convert that format to Maildir or some other > format you could feed into a reader like neomutt.
Sorry, I didn't notice this before. I started making some attempts at improving documentation (among other things, when time permits) to public-inbox: https://public-inbox.org/meta/20190102083305.30473-...@80x24.org/ And without knowing anything about git or public-inbox, you can get NNTP messages into Maildir or mboxrd pretty easily. Nothing new to learn :) I wrote a one-off Ruby years ago (before public-inbox) for converting slrnspools to Maildir (sample slrnpull.conf below). But yeah, I wouldn't recommend 3M+ messages in a Maildir... ==> slrnspool2maildir <== #!/usr/bin/ruby require 'socket' require 'fileutils' HOSTNAME = Socket.gethostname usage = "Usage #$0 <spooldir> <maildir>" spooldir = ARGV[0] or abort usage maildir = ARGV[1] or abort usage f = base = nil nr = 0 %w(cur new tmp).each { |x| FileUtils.mkpath("#{maildir}/#{x}") } Dir.glob("#{spooldir}/*").each do |src| File.file?(src) or next base = File.basename(src) dest = "#{maildir}/new/#{Time.now.to_i}_#{base}_0.#{HOSTNAME}:2," begin File.link(src, dest) rescue Errno::EEXIST warn "#{dest} already exists" next end File.unlink(src) end __END__ ==> slrnpull.conf <== # group_name max expire headers_only inbox.com.example.news.group.name 1000000000 1000000000 0 # usage: slrnpull -d $PWD -h news.example.com --no-post # Wouldn't be hard to script something using Net::NNTP in Perl # to write directly to Maildirs, either.
