@monsieuricon I have someone that only has gmail available for mail. How can I enable them _easily_ to reply to a thread they weren't Cced on? Do you happen to have an idea?

@brauner @monsieuricon I've wondered that too, both for myself and others, but sadly I've never found a solution. If someone has an approach that works, please share :)

@securepaul @brauner I did consider adding "b4 watch <msgid>" that would email you the full thread and all updates to it.

@monsieuricon @securepaul so the issue I often have is that someone wants to comment on a thread (a user of something, for example) and they lack the setup to do so. They often only have the gmail web interface and I want them to just reply to a downloaded mbox from lore. So that I can tell them: ok, go here use that as a one time thing. No larger setup, no complicated configuration setting whatsoever. Maybe I'm dreaming but it would help a lot of people.

@monsieuricon @brauner I think that could be helpful, although I'm curious how that would work. It would require some infrastructure, wouldn't it?

@brauner @securepaul Stupidly, Gmail doesn't make it easy to put things into your inbox using the API. If I wanted to write a script that would upload a thread from lore into your Gmail inbox, I would need to first get a developer API token (in my name, or in LF's name), then you as a user of my script would need to OAuth, during which Google will say "do you allow Konstantin full write access to your mailbox," the only sensible answer to which is "heck no."

@securepaul @brauner Yes, this would call the web endpoint, which would do the actual thread retrieval and mailing.

The "watch" part is a bit more involved, because that would require monitoring a thread for updates, but to just send out a thread to an address would be easy.

@brauner @monsieuricon @securepaul for that I used mutt with a flag (forgot the name right now...) that would load a mbox file, and reply to a specific mail in the thread. It's far from ideal, but worked quite well when I had sporadic patches to comment.

@monsieuricon @securepaul @brauner that would be amazing!

@mpdesouza @brauner @monsieuricon I *almost* added a sentence to my last reply about any answers involving mutt would be immediately discarded :)

I agree that mutt can be useful, in fact I do have some scripts/automations which use it, but I personally dislike the UX. It's 2024, we can do better ;)

@securepaul @brauner @monsieuricon I don't like it as well, just said what's available and currently works. Of course, we deserve better tools :)

@securepaul @mpdesouza @brauner @monsieuricon oh Paul, Paul...

@monsieuricon @brauner @securepaul When I need to do this I use mutt’s bounce command to resend the mail to the system I want it in - it’s not caused me issues but I do it very infrequently.