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Ducky 🇨🇦<p>This week's Pandemics in BC blog posts:<br>General: <a href="https://covidbc.webfoot.com/2025/03/07/2025-03-07-general/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">covidbc.webfoot.com/2025/03/07</span><span class="invisible">/2025-03-07-general/</span></a><br>BC: <a href="https://covidbc.webfoot.com/2025/03/07/2025-03-07-bc/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">covidbc.webfoot.com/2025/03/07</span><span class="invisible">/2025-03-07-bc/</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/covid19bc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>covid19bc</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>covid</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/mbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mbox</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/h5n1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>h5n1</span></a></p>
viq<p>So, uh... <a href="https://social.hackerspace.pl/tags/Thunderbird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Thunderbird</span></a> uses <a href="https://social.hackerspace.pl/tags/mbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mbox</span></a> format for storing <a href="https://social.hackerspace.pl/tags/email" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>email</span></a> locally! 😱<br><a href="https://social.hackerspace.pl/tags/sysadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sysadmin</span></a> <a href="https://social.hackerspace.pl/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://social.hackerspace.pl/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a></p>
Cayetano Santos<p>Ever wanted to contribute to <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/guix" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>guix</span></a> or <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>emacs</span></a> commons ? A bit scary about the <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/email" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>email</span></a> based workflow ? Afraid of having to manipulate thousands of emails locally ?</p><p>No worries: <a href="https://yhetil.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">yhetil.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>, a public-inbox based service, provides a nice web front end to browse for patches, issues and bugs you may contribute to fix: thread overview, outlining, reply links, thread download in <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/mbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mbox</span></a> format, everything you need to start contributing is there.</p><p><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/guixtips" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>guixtips</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/emailrenaissance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>emailrenaissance</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/emailisnotdead" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>emailisnotdead</span></a></p>
Iñaki de Miguel Díaz :verified_aroace:<p>Me he hecho un script rapido en python para pasar los mensajes de <a href="https://masto.es/tags/Gmail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gmail</span></a> bajados en formato <a href="https://masto.es/tags/mbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mbox</span></a> con <a href="https://masto.es/tags/googletakeout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googletakeout</span></a> con fecha a partir del 1 de enero de 2023 a un nuevo fichero mbox para importar en <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Tutanota</span></a></span> el mbox completo de 15GB ya está <a href="https://masto.es/tags/7z" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>7z</span></a> con contraseña en un <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@veracrypt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>veracrypt</span></a></span> si todo va bien compartiré el python en un gist (es mu tonto y muy a lo rápido eso si).</p><p><a href="https://masto.es/tags/dataprivacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dataprivacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/ethicaldata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethicaldata</span></a></p>
Bertrand Caron<p>Et hop, une nouvelle fiche Format en cours de validation. On y parle de <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/MBOX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MBOX</span></a>, un format de dossier de messagerie libre - mais faiblement normalisé :</p><p><a href="https://github.com/hackathonBnF/FichesFormat/wiki/MBOX" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/hackathonBnF/Fiches</span><span class="invisible">Format/wiki/MBOX</span></a></p><p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigiPres_FR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigiPres_FR</span></a></p>
Roi Martin<p>I wrote a very simple elisp function to open a remote mbox file from emacs.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/jroimartin/dotfiles/blob/4460539caff168b6151a4a0e07f58a8724f81d3f/.emacs.d/lisp/jroi-rmail.el" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/jroimartin/dotfiles</span><span class="invisible">/blob/4460539caff168b6151a4a0e07f58a8724f81d3f/.emacs.d/lisp/jroi-rmail.el</span></a></p><p>Super useful when you want to open a lore.kernel.org thread from a mailing list you are not subscribed to and answer/review some mails.</p><p>Just execute</p><p>M-x jroi-rmail-url</p><p>and enter the relevant mbox.gz URL.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/elisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elisp</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/kernel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kernel</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/email" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>email</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/mbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mbox</span></a></p>
o ifrit<p>Alguém sabe se é possível gerir os mails de uma cópia de segurança de Gmail (em formato .mbox) com Thunderbird (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@thunderbird" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>thunderbird</span></a></span>)? E se não é possível... alguma ideia alternativa? Obrigado!</p><p>Tenho a caixa de correios cheia e tenho que deixar funcionando essa memória histórica antes de apagar todo...</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/thunderbird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thunderbird</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/gmail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gmail</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/mail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mail</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/email" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>email</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/mbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mbox</span></a></p>
Adam ♿<p>What do you use for backing up <a href="https://aus.social/tags/IMAP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IMAP</span></a> (specifically, IMAP4) and keeping that backup up to date? <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Maildir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maildir</span></a> or <a href="https://aus.social/tags/mbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mbox</span></a> format preferred, in that order.</p>
Cybarbie<p>I bought a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/T95" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>T95</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MBOX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MBOX</span></a> from Jazzy B. because I was promised pre-installed Chinese malware and it's a real disappointment let me tell you. Sure there are a few PUPs with a few hits on virustotal but absolutely nothing to write home about. Meanwhile some absolute champion is dumping <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iSoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iSoon</span></a>.</p>
jik<p><strong>Rambling about hacking on my creaky old email archival infrastructure</strong></p><p>What started out as a simple message archiving task turned into many hours of debugging, fixing, and cleaning up the old archives. Both frustrating and fun at the same time.</p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://blog.kamens.us/tag/babyl/" target="_blank">#babyl</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://blog.kamens.us/tag/emacs/" target="_blank">#Emacs</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://blog.kamens.us/tag/hacking/" target="_blank">#hacking</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://blog.kamens.us/tag/mbox/" target="_blank">#mbox</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://blog.kamens.us/tag/perl/" target="_blank">#Perl</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://blog.kamens.us/tag/python/" target="_blank">#Python</a></p><p><a href="https://blog.kamens.us/2024/01/26/rambling-about-hacking-on-my-creaky-old-email-archival-infrastructure/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://blog.kamens.us/2024/01/26/rambling-about-hacking-on-my-creaky-old-email-archival-infrastructure/</a></p>
LisPi<p>Regarding <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/email" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>email</span></a>, screw the old <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/filesystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>filesystem</span></a>-centric non <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/transactional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transactional</span></a> approach btw.</p><p>Both <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/mbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mbox</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/maildir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maildir</span></a> suck.</p><p>Program crashed while you were modifying a mail? Who knows what the on-disk file looks like now. You had it git-versioned? Good. If all goes well and git or the computer itself doesn't crash while updating things, that might be enough.</p><p>Even key-value <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/databases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>databases</span></a> like <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/BerkeleyDB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BerkeleyDB</span></a> do it better, and they did so before <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/SQLite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SQLite</span></a> even existed.</p><p>So why can't I have tools using DBs?</p>
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