Mekeor Melire <[email protected]> writes: > 2022-11-16 / 23:41 / [email protected]: >> 2022-11-16 / 23:22 / [email protected]: >> > November 16, 2022 6:15 PM, "Mekeor Melire" <[email protected]> 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
