Re: This is how you import a mailing list archives (e.g. guix-patches) into mu4e

[Mekeor Melire]

2022-11-16 / 23:41 / mekeor@posteo.de:
> 2022-11-16 / 23:22 / jbranso@dismail.de:
> > November 16, 2022 6:15 PM, "Mekeor Melire" <mekeor@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.

> > Would you mind writing this up and including it in the guix cookbook?
>
> Alright, I'll try to send a patch. I think I should change the
> instructions in order to replace the unpackaged mb2md perl-script in
> favor of the packaged mblaze tool. Afterwards, it should be straight
> forward.

I made a little shell script out of these instructions. You can find it
attached. The script allows to either import a specified GNU
mailing-list into a specified maildir, or update that maildir, beginning
either from a specified YYYY-MM date or from the date of the latest
message.

For example, I used this command to initialize my mailing-list-maildirs:

    guix shell mblaze html-xml-utils -- sh -c 'for l in bug-guix
        guix-devel guix-patches help-guix; do ~/path/to/ugmltmd
        ~/path/to/mail/$l $l 2022-01; done'

And I use the following command to update my mailing-list-maildirs:

    guix shell mblaze html-xml-utils -- sh -c 'for l in bug-guix
        guix-devel guix-patches help-guix; do ~/path/to/ugmltmd
        ~/path/to/mail/$l $l; done'

I wonder if it still makes sense to add some instructions into the Guix
cookbook. And if so, I wonder if this shell script should just be put
there or if it should live in some public git repository somewhere.

What do you think?

ugmltmd
Description: Bourne shell script