Hi everyone I've been happily using lei in place of mailing list subscriptions for a while now, but ran into an issue recently while trying to limit the volume of email, which I am hoping someone has a good solution for: Basically, what I was trying to do was to avoid following the firehose of patches that is netdev@vger, and instead selectively pull in patches for the areas I care about (which mostly boils down to avoiding all the driver-only patches). To achieve this, I've set up a lei search using the handy dfn: prefix for searches. In simplified form I've gone from a search like: q = l:netdev.vger.kernel.org AND rt:1.month.ago.. to q = dfn:net/core/* AND rt:1.month.ago... (my full query has a few more terms but this is enough to illustrate the problem). Now, the above query works beautifully to bring down the volume of patches to a more manageable level (phew), but I have run into a problem with follow-ups, which I'll try to describe as I understand it: I'm using the --threads parameter to 'lei q' which nicely pulls down the whole thread whenever one patch in the series matches[0]. However, if a reply shows up later, which does not in itself match the dfn: query, but is part of a thread that does, this reply will only be downloaded if the original thread still matches[1]. Which it doesn't necessarily do anymore because of the time limit parameter added by lei which only pulls in new emails since the last one downloaded. I can get around the default lei time limit by adding --remote-fudge-time=1.month to 'lei up', but that makes lei pull in thousands of mails on every update, which seems a bit wasteful. And I'll still miss replies to threads that are older than the 1-month time limit. So really I think what I'm looking for is a way to construct a query that uses the send time of the individual (reply) messages, but applies the dfn: match to the whole thread. Is there a way to do that? And/or does anyone have any other neat tricks they are using to construct a similar selective mail feed without missing stuff? :) -Toke [0] Side note: if anyone has a nice trick to specifically exclude Greg's stable patch bombs from this, I would be interested in hearing about that as well :) [1] An example: I was missing this reply in my local mailbox even though the original thread was there: https://lore.kernel.org/all/64dcf5834c4c8_23f1f8294fa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.notmuch/ Adding the --remote-fudge-time parameter pulled it in.
