From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> To: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>, Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>, Jasper Spaans <j@jasper.es> Subject: Re: [RFC] LKML Archive in Maildir Format Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 03:44:53 +0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20190307034453.pbhmllhmsjy6kvtc@dcvr> (raw) In-Reply-To: <CAErSpo6QTdABwBx-nvkmJyv7JHb95azapwLtBf++Ved7=UpMWA@mail.gmail.com> Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 5:26 PM Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote: > > Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> wrote: > > > > Any pointers? I guess there's no mutt backend that can read a > > > public-inbox archive directly? > > > > There's mutt patches to support reading over NNTP, so that > > works: > > > > mutt -f news://$INBOX_HOST/$INBOX_NEWSGROUP > > Neomutt includes NNTP support, so I tried this: > > neomutt -f news://nntp.lore.kernel.org/org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel > > which worked OK but (1) I only see the most recent 1000 messages and > (2) obviously isn't reading a *local* archive. Neomutt took about 45 > seconds to start up over my wimpy ISP. > > I assume I could probably have a local archive and run a local NNTP > server and point neomutt at that local server. But I don't know how > full-archive searching would work there. Right. AFAIK there isn't a good solution for search via NNTP. > > I don't think mutt handles mboxrd 100% correctly, but it's close > > enough that you can can download the gzipped mboxrd of a search > > query and open it via "mutt -f /path/to/downloaded/mbox.gz" > > > > curl -XPOST -OJ "$INBOX_URL/?q=$SEARCH_QUERY&x=m" > > I got nothing at all with -XPOST, but this: Ah, I guess nginx (or something in AWS) rejects POST without Content-Length headers. Adding "-HContent-Length:0" to the command-line with -XPOST works for lore. > curl -OJ "https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/?q=d:20190301..&x=m" > > got me the HTML source. Nothing that looks like mboxrd. I assume Right. The "x=m" requests an mbox; but it's only available via POST requests (to prevent search engine spiders from wasting time on non-HTML content). With the HTML output in a browser, the "mbox.gz" button makes the POST request and allows you to download the mbox. > this is stupid user error on my part, but even with that resolved, it > wouldn't have the nice git fetch properties of the git archive, i.e., > incremental updates of only new stuff, would it? You could bump d:YYYYMMDD (there's also "dt:" for date-time if you need more precision). > I think my ideal solution would be a mutt that could read the git > archive directly, plus a notmuch index. But AFAIK, mutt can't do > that, and notmuch only works with one message per file, not with the > git archive. > > Something that might work would be to use Konstantin's "git archive to > maildir" hint but shard into a bunch of smaller maildirs instead of > one big one, then have notmuch index those, and use mutt or vim with > notmuch queries instead of having it read in a maildir. Small Maildirs work great, but large ones fall over. I don't think having a bunch of smaller Maildirs would help notmuch since notmuch still needs to know each file path. The only way I could see notmuch/Maildir working well is to keep the overall number of messages relatively small. One of my longer-term goals is to write a mairix-like tool in Perl which works with public-inbox archives; but I barely have enough time for public-inbox these days :< mairix works with gzipped mboxes, which is great for large archives; but the indexing falls over since it rewrites the entire search index every time. SSDs have died as a result :< > But I feel like I must be missing the solution that's obvious to > everybody but me. Nope, you're not alone :) There's not a lot of mail software which can handle LKML-sized histories efficiently.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-07 3:44 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2018-12-16 19:06 Joey Pabalinas 2018-12-16 19:17 ` Joe Perches 2018-12-16 19:21 ` Joey Pabalinas 2018-12-16 19:55 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev 2018-12-16 21:55 ` Joey Pabalinas 2018-12-18 20:26 ` Jasper Spaans 2018-12-18 22:53 ` Joey Pabalinas 2018-12-16 19:46 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev 2018-12-16 19:53 ` Joey Pabalinas 2019-01-04 1:35 ` Eric Wong 2019-03-05 20:48 ` Bjorn Helgaas 2019-03-05 23:26 ` Eric Wong 2019-03-06 20:50 ` Bjorn Helgaas 2019-03-07 3:44 ` Eric Wong [this message]
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