From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: Help setting up a public-inbox instance: importing from maildir archive isn't working
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:44:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230614094456.M853858@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b0094723-8742-354f-ee9c-7b8747fce8af@bsdio.com>
Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a public-inbox instance to mirror the edk2-devel
> mailing list. I'm using version 1.9.0.
>
> I'm having problems importing a mirror of 105,000 messages from 2016 onward
> - when I configured it to pull them from an IMAP server it appeared to go
> through all of them, but then the web interface only showed the last 10 or
> so, with no more pages and the edk2-devel.git directory is only a few MB.
>
> When imap didn't work, I tried downloading them into a maildir and tried
> importing them via that instead, but that isn't working either.
OK, so I suppose it's a matching problem because the matching
logic is shared between IMAP and Maildir.
> [publicinbox "edk2-devel"]
> address = devel@edk2.groups.io
> inboxdir = /home/public-inbox/edk2-devel.git
> watchheader = List-Id:<devel.edk2.groups.io>
Any chance that List-Id doesn't match the older messages?
You are allowed multiple `watchheader' directives for an inbox
to account for address/name changes and such (and older headers
such as `X-BeenThere')
I haven't tried it, but this should work as long as you want
every message in a watched Maildir (or IMAP folder):
watchheader = From:.
...which matches all messages with a literal `.' in the From: header;
so practically every valid message. Likewise for Received:, Date:
or any practically-always-present header:value-substring combo.
I think everything else in your configs+commands looked fine;
but I'm still struggling with lack-of-sleep and could've missed
things :<
I designed the `watchheader' directives to handle multiple lists
funneled into one Maildir; but I suppose it's less intuitive for
users with a 1:1 list => Maildir mapping :x
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-14 9:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-13 14:49 Help setting up a public-inbox instance: importing from maildir archive isn't working Rebecca Cran
2023-06-14 9:44 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2023-06-19 19:12 ` Rebecca Cran
2023-06-20 2:56 ` Eric Wong
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