Any #lei / #publicinbox experts around to help me with this (maybe @monsieuricon?):

What's the best to subscribe to a thread on lore[1]?

My current plan looks like this:

* Move a message from the thread I care about to a dedicated imap folder

* regularly run a script that

1. extracts the msg-ids from all messages in that folder
2. run a lei query[2] to get all messages from threads with said msg-ids

Or can lei handle that more elegantly, e.g. without a script?

[1] e.g. if one of a few Dozent mails an earlier lei search found turns out to be something I want to monitor?

[2] e.g. "lei q -I https://lore.kernel.org/all/ -o maildir:/some/place --threads --dedupe=mid msgid@example.com rt:90.days.ago.."

@kernellogger @monsieuricon with both korgalore and lei installed, it takes just "kgl track" and then kgl pull to fetch any updates

@vbabka @monsieuricon many thx!

Hmmm. Until now I had no need for korgalore. And I wonder if about it's overhead due to cross-posting if I use it for 30+ lists I normally don't care about. And having something where I would not have to leave my mailer would be nice, too.

@kernellogger @monsieuricon hm what overhead for cross posting if you track a particular thread(s)? It uses lei underneath somehow, but saves you from the scripting.
And the not leaving your mailer means what exactly? It uploads to IMAP (if you want) so it can be a cronjob that fills it with new responses regularly, you just need to tell it once what thread to add to tracking.

@vbabka @monsieuricon not leave the mailer for subscribing to threads would be nice, e.g. your "kgl track", but as I said, just a bonus.

And reg. overhead: let me look into korgalore once more, seem I don't know well enough how it works, I thought it was using shallow clones of the git trees from public inbox.

thx!

@kernellogger @vbabka it can use lei and it has a gnome/taskbar applet you can use for quick actions, like yanking a thread.

@monsieuricon thx for the reply. Looked closer and seemed korgalore was not the right thing for my use case, as I would have to add various mailings list to it, only to mirror one or two handful of threads threads that change every now and then.

So I wrote something in python that utilized lei & lore/all: https://www.leemhuis.info/files/misc/leimonfold.txt

All I need to do to monitor a thread is move a msg to the folder in question.

Feel free to tell me if that is a stupid or dump approach.

CC: @vbabka

@kernellogger @monsieuricon you don't need to add any mailing lists to kgl/lei in order to use the "kgl track $thread_msgid" command.

@vbabka Ohh? Ohh! Then I need to look at korgalore again, thx. But I guess I might have written that code again nevertheless just for to avoid switching from the mailer to the command line (but maybe I'm just telling me this now to feel less bad 🥴 )

CC: @monsieuricon

@kernellogger @vbabka No, you just need to configure a single target to make both "yank" and "track" work. I mean, having your own script is fine, too, but the solution is literally right there. :)