Re: MH & thread support

[Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>]

Jakub Kicinski writes:

> Hi!
>
> Two questions:
>
>  - how do the plans for MH email format support look? It'd be great to
>    fetch emails with lei directly to claws-mail (which seems to be used
>    by a number of kernel devs, at least)

I don't have any informed opinions on this and don't know what Eric's
thoughts are, but fwiw this is what he wrote in lei-mail-formats(5):

  MH
         Not yet supported, locking semantics (or lack thereof) appear to make
         it unsuitable for parallel access.  It is widely-supported by a variety
         of MUAs and mailing list managers, however.

>  - is there a way to get lei to fetch a particular thread? It seems
>    like using a bare msg-id as the search term mostly works, but it 
>    also fetches in any threads which were referring to the thread of
>    interest by posting a link

You can search with the "mid:" prefix and then pull in the entire thread
with -t/--threads:

  $ lei q -f ldjson \
    mid:20211119204916.grergcuzj5gcic6c@meerkat.local | \
    jq '[.blob,.s,.f[0][0]]'
  [
    "7e49832370e95afb54298d21ea4c10d338bb3a7b",
    "RFC: should lei inject its own \"Received:\" header?",
    "Konstantin Ryabitsev"
  ]


  $ lei q -t -f ldjson \
    mid:20211119204916.grergcuzj5gcic6c@meerkat.local | \
    jq '[.blob,.s,.f[0][0]]'
  [
    "7e49832370e95afb54298d21ea4c10d338bb3a7b",
    "RFC: should lei inject its own \"Received:\" header?",
    "Konstantin Ryabitsev"
  ]
  [
    "70c49f363594e94d89a14bcb57c45d45cac49172",
    "Re: RFC: should lei inject its own \"Received:\" header?",
    "Eric Wong"
  ]