Mail archives in Git using ssoma

[W. Trevor King]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 11:03:21AM -0800, W. Trevor King wrote:
> Eric Wong has been working on some tools to store email in a Git
> repository, and his client-side code is ssoma [1].  I wanted a bit
> more metadata than the stock ssoma-mda [2], and ended up just
> writing a ssoma-mda in Python [3]…
>
> Then I grabbed the archives, and pulled them into Git:
> …
> The messages I dropped removed duplicate Message-IDs:
> …

ssoma and public-inbox came up recently (with the end of Gmane) in
[1].  I've brought my archives [2] up to speed with a fresh mbox
downloaded today [3].  Beyond the ignored messages mentioned in my
initial email, I had to ignore:

* id:67EEA3E1-918F-47AE-8AD7-EF0A5923D800 at m0g.net

  Which had different headers up through:

  -X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 15:49:49 -0000
  +X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 15:50:34 -0000

  but the same body in both instances.

I also had to remove two control characters:

  $ tr -d '\034' <notmuch.mbox >notmuch-fixed.mbox

to get the mbox into a format that Python could parse without errors.

I've pushed the mbox → ssoma(ish) import script to the ‘import’ branch
of [2] if folks want to play around.

Cheers,
Trevor

[1]: id:20160820062931.GY30347 at odin.tremily.us
[2]: git://tremily.us/notmuch-archives.git
[3]: http://notmuchmail.org/archives/notmuch.mbox

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