Re: [RFC] LKML Archive in Maildir Format

[Jasper Spaans]

Hi Joey,

On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 09:21:35AM -1000, Joey Pabalinas wrote:
> > > I spent a lot of time trying to find an LKML archive in Maildir format
> > > that I could use for local searches with nutmuch or something, but all
> > > the links I was able to find were all dead.
> > 
> > You might instead use
> > 
> > https://www.kernel.org/lore.html
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/public-inbox/vger.kernel.org/git.git/
> 
> That was my first attempt, but the ducumentation for the public-inbox
> format is sort of terrible, and after a few hours trying to convert it
> to Maildir I just gave up.
> 
> I ended up just slowly scraping lkml.org for a couple weeks so I
> wouldn't disrupt anything and it worked fairly well. Just looking for
> advice on where to host this now so others might be able to use it.

Now you've caught my attention; first of all, there are more than 3M
messages stored in the lkml.org datase, so I guess you've missed some
messages or something is really broken.

Besides, unless you figured out how to get to the raw data, you've just
scraped a rendering which discards stuff like pgp signatures etc and has
very incomplete headers. Unless you don't care for those of course :)

Note that I've also been toying with the lore dataset, and wrote a tiny tool
to get Maildir-like data out of it; this code is a bit of a single-use-jig
so you'll need to do some coding if you really want to use it.  Attached
anyway.

All the best and enjoy,
Jasper
[[source]]
url = "https://pypi.org/simple";
verify_ssl = true
name = "pypi"

[packages]
gitpython = "*"
ipython = "*"

[dev-packages]

[requires]
python_version = "3.7"
from email.parser import BytesParser
from email.message import EmailMessage
from email.policy import default

from git import Repo

our_last_id = '<dc4d502c-bc3c-46e3-a984-41271951a5f7@xxxxxxxxxxxx>'
#'<20180711142744.GN3593@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>'


repo = Repo('/Users/spaans/xsrc/lkml/lkml/git/6.git')


commit = repo.commit("master")
counter = 5000
froms = set()
while True:
    tree = commit.tree
    blob = tree['m']
    data = blob.data_stream.read()

    msg = BytesParser(policy=default).parsebytes(data)

    msgid = msg['Message-ID']
    from_ = msg['From']
    froms.add(from_)
    print(msgid)

    #import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
    if len(froms) > 1000:
        print("HAVE LOTS OF FRIENDS NOW")
        break
    if msgid == our_last_id:
        print("LADIES & GENTLEMEN, WE'VE GOT HIM")
        break
    parents = commit.parents
    if len(parents) != 1:
        print("WUH")
        break
    else:
        commit = commit.parents[0]

    #with open("output/%04d.eml" % counter, "bw") as f:
    #    f.write(data)
    counter -= 1

import pprint
pprint.pprint(froms)

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