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From: William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>
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Subject: Re: Mailing list and tooling for nixpkgs-dev
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Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2021 20:56:43 -0800
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William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com> writes:

> William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com> writes:
>
>>> On Feb 6, 2021, at 17:28, andi@srht.l.notmuch.email wrote:
>>>=20
>>> =EF=BB=BFWould be nice if b4 supported notmuch databases instead of pub=
lic
>>> inboxes. I've all my mail (lots and lots of public mailing lists) in
>>> notmuch an my primary workflow is really driven by queries to the local
>>> database.
>>
>> It=E2=80=99s really odd that b4 doesn=E2=80=99t support applying raw mbo=
x over stdin.
>> I might look into adding that, then you could use notmuch show
>> =E2=80=94format=3Dmbox thread:id and pipe it to b4 am.
>
> looks like it does via the -m option. Here's a notmuch-am script that
> does a b4 am on a notmuch thread:
>
>   #!/usr/bin/env bash
>   set -eou pipefail
>   mbox=3D$(mktemp)
>   notmuch show --format=3Dmbox "$1" > "$mbox"
>   msgid=3D$(grep -i ^message-id "$mbox" | cut -d" " -f2 | head -n1)
>   b4 am "$msgid" -m "$mbox"
>   rm -f "$mbox"

Here's a little fzf script that uses this:

https://asciinema.org/a/KB25MsQfyq3WPPAwdewQ2LvYS

That's enough fun for today :)