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Read public-inbox mailinglists via notmuch
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Read public-inbox mailinglists via notmuch

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/wkz/notmuch-lore
• Owner: wkz
• Created: 2020-11-10T12:52:18.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-01-14T11:04:00.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-30T14:50:29.806Z (5 months ago)
• Language: Shell
• Size: 2.93 KB
• Stars: 18
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
notmuch-lore

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Read [public-inbox] mailinglists via [notmuch].

Being subscribed to high-volume mailinglists can be very damaging to

your mail quota. [public-inbox] solves that problem by offering a Git

front-end to a mailinglist. So instead of trying to download 27k

emails over IMAP and have your provider start to throttle your

requests to a ridiculously low rate (allegedly) after 2k, you can

download Git packs at line rate.

The problem with [public-inbox] is that it is not easy to consume from

regular mail readers. This is where notmuch-lore comes in. It connects

to [public-inbox] repos, downloads messages, and converts them to a

standard Maildir format.

Setup

-----

It is intended to be used as a `pre-new` hook together with

[notmuch]. All you need to setup is an INI file containing a section

per list you want to sync, specifying the URL. Here is an example

config that would track the "netdev" mailinglist from

`lore.kernel.org`:

    [netdev]

    url=https://lore.kernel.org/netdev

This file must be called `sources` and live in the `.lore` directory

in your [notmuch] directory. Typically it will look something like

this:

    ~/mail/.notmuch/

    ├── hooks

    │   └── pre-new -> location-of/notmuch-lore/pre-new

    └── .lore

        └── sources

If you then tell [notmuch] to fetch new mail, e.g. by pressing `G`

from the `*notmuch-hello*` buffer if you are using the emacs mode, you

will sync up your local Maildir to the [public-inbox].

[public-inbox]: https://public-inbox.org/

[notmuch]: https://notmuchmail.org/