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Ever wanted to contribute to #guix or #emacs commons ? A bit scary about the #email based workflow ? Afraid of having to manipulate thousands of emails locally ?
No worries: https://yhetil.org, a public-inbox based service, provides a nice web front end to browse for patches, issues and bugs you may contribute to fix: thread overview, outlining, reply links, thread download in #mbox format, everything you need to start contributing is there.
Pues este seria el dirty script rapido para filtrar un #mbox extraido de #Gmail en otro filtrado por fecha (echa un vistazo para asegurarte y tunealo a tu gusto).
https://gist.github.com/imigueldiaz/6eb9c9cb9de2106e3b15a4f4ccaeeb76
Me he hecho un script rapido en python para pasar los mensajes de #Gmail bajados en formato #mbox con #googletakeout con fecha a partir del 1 de enero de 2023 a un nuevo fichero mbox para importar en @Tutanota el mobox completo de 15GB ya está #7z con contraseña en un @veracrypt si todo va bien compartiré el python en un gist (es mu tonto y muy a lo rápido eso si).
Suggestions for a good mbox app for Mac?
I'm clearing my data off of Google, but would like to keep my 15+ years of Gmail archives searchable on my computer.
I've downloaded a 13 GB mbox folder.... What should I use to open this? I will need to search through it regularly for information.
Et hop, une nouvelle fiche Format en cours de validation. On y parle de #MBOX, un format de dossier de messagerie libre - mais faiblement normalisé :
I wrote a very simple elisp function to open a remote mbox file from emacs.
Super useful when you want to open a lore.kernel.org thread from a mailing list you are not subscribed to and answer/review some mails.
Just execute
M-x jroi-rmail-url
and enter the relevant mbox.gz URL.
I looked for MBOX parser to parse out some headers from multiple files into CSV, checked a couple of Github python scripts, but then decided that pure bash grep and regex is faster (and it was).
#bash #webdev #programming #data #normalization #Mbox
Alguém sabe se é possível gerir os mails de uma cópia de segurança de Gmail (em formato .mbox) com Thunderbird (@thunderbird)? E se não é possível... alguma ideia alternativa? Obrigado!
Tenho a caixa de correios cheia e tenho que deixar funcionando essa memória histórica antes de apagar todo...
Ma perchè non riesco ad importare un file #mbox in #thunderbird? Mannaggia a lui.. La voce di menù compare non attiva. #mastoaiuto
Regarding #email, screw the old #filesystem-centric non #transactional approach btw.
Program crashed while you were modifying a mail? Who knows what the on-disk file looks like now. You had it git-versioned? Good. If all goes well and git or the computer itself doesn't crash while updating things, that might be enough.
Even key-value #databases like #BerkeleyDB do it better, and they did so before #SQLite even existed.
So why can't I have tools using DBs?
Alright!
I think I've got code which generates numeric IDs for messages within a Maildir or Mbox, where the happy path is a relatively efficient direct-ish lookup of the target message, but enough info is encoded in the ID to recover and do the right thing if the message has moved, changed slightly or been replaced by an imposter.
Along with hooks to notify the calling code that IDs have become inefficient and a re-indexing might be warranted.
I can sleep now.
It is very easy to write code that *usually* works with an mbox file.
It is surprisingly tricky to write code that *reliably* works with an #mbox file.
Almost impossible, actually, since there are multiple incompatible variants of the format.
I keep coming back to this code and finding new problems with it. That is a good thing, I guess? Making progress...
In Wayne's World we'll go ahead and claim auth is solved.
So how do we start automating things?
Well, automation can be one of two styles (or both) - push or pull/poll based.
From an existing-art perspective, email can be delivered via a file-based or protocol based system. #IMAP and #POP3 are two protocols, and #mbox and #Maildir are two file-based (and clients *may* take delivery from IMAP/POP3 and store them as local files as well).
Has the world forgotten once again that mbox has not been an "it" since MMDF and S5R4 came along in the 1980s? "They" is the correct pronoun.
And the dots were #SMTP, not mbox.
http://jdebp.info/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html
Good thing that's come out of this conversation is the emergence of a comparative stack for those unfamiliar the general pattern for interacting with inboxes and outboxes unleashed via #email.
#GMAIL is the hosted equivalent of @Mastodon.
#SMTP is the server-server protocol for delivering #mbox docs to inboxes and outboxes.
#IMAP4 is the client-server protocol (implemented by GMAIL but missing from Mastodon).
#ActivityStreams is the mbox payload equivalent.
I didn't say or insinuate that. I was simply expressing concern about the server-server centricity of @Mastodon in relation to its #ActivityPub support.
Simplest example is #Email where #SMTP plays the role of #ActivityPub re moving #mbox docs across outboxes and inboxes; with #IMAP4 (a client-server protocol) handling retrieval.
Even #GMAIL supports #IMAP4 (and #POP3) while also having its own #API.
@Mastodon should operate in similar fashion is my point 
/cc @mike
@alfredohno If there's a #MailingList or something, it might be usable.
I've taken to downloading the #mbox archives of projects, converting them to #maildir and shoving them in #mu so that I can search them with #mu4e more usably.
Trying to migrate a big locally stored #email archive from Apple Mail to #Thunderbird by exporting to #mbox, but the email count after importing never adds up. Do these apps count items differently? Any ideas how to can verify that now emails got lost in the process? Thanks!