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

[Joshua Branson]

Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de> writes:

> 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?

I would reach out to guix devel/guix-patches and try to put this little
code snippet in guix's source's /etc directory.  Then add to the
cookbook explaining how to use it.  Something like this would be
tremendously useful!

Thanks for working on it!

Joshua