"brian m. carlson" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have tooling to automatically generate the proper range for
> range-diffs in cover letters, but that tooling requires some sort of
> manual timestamp, which means I need to go search for my previous series
> to find the date and generate the range diff, or if I'm in a rush, I
> just have to omit it. This can take some time, having to guess what I
> named the cover letter the last time and search for it in a mailbox with
> a 6-digit quantity of mails[0].
>
> In general, I have trouble keeping track of the patch mails I've sent.
> I do definitely need to refer to them later, but I don't generally keep
> them around on my system since they tend to duplicate my repository, so
> I end up needing to find them in my mailbox, which as mentioned, is
> slow and error prone.
Along the lines of what Ted said about Fcc, I've always Bcc-ed
myself on every message I send to verify deliverability and
check/train my spam filter.
What search tool do you use? mairix can handle the 6-digit
quantity of the git list fairly well. The following finds all
threads with "sandals" in From/To/Cc:
mairix -t a:sandals d:YYYYMMDD-YYYYMMDD
and dumps it to whatever Maildir/mbox/IMAP "mfolder" you've
configured. (prefixes in public-inbox such as "a:", "d:" and
"s:" are stolen from mairix; though mairix ranges use "-" and
public-inbox uses ".." due to Xapian).
I've also heard good things about notmuch, but I archive old
mail to gzipped mboxrd right now[1], and that only supports
Maildir... I learned to use Xapian by reading code in notmuch.
[1] Fwiw, I'm also working on an AGPL Perl5 storage+search CLI
that scales to 7/8-digit mail collections. It's not ready
for prime-time, yet, but getting there... (Assuming it
doesn't set my SSD on fire, first :x)
