Re: korgalore v0.4 now available

[Konstantin Ryabitsev <mricon@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 12:59:49PM +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> One thing that I missed is that "kgl pull" doesn't really pull
> e-mails inside the mailbox, even when used with lei to pick the last
> week/month of stuff: it just sets it to pick newest e-mails from
> now on.

Yes, for now it acts just like joining a mailing list -- you start receiving
any new mail after you've subscribed. This is mostly to avoid starting off
with delivering a potentially large number of messages to gmail on the very
first run. It takes about 3-5 seconds per message (verily!), so if you are
just setting up and your initial delivery is 1000 messages, you're sitting
there for an hour looking at the progress bar crawling forward.

> IMO, the default should be to populate maildir with the contents
> from the lore git trees, when "kgl pull" is called, as, if one
> wants to pick stuff there is because they usually want to look
> at the most recent messages - eventually replying to them.
> As such, IMHO, the mailbox to be sync altogether with the
> already-existing messages from the specified period.

This is the behaviour we have with "track-subsystem" -- it will deliver the
last 7 days of messages right away. At the moment, I'm loath to do this with
arbitrary lei searches. I'd rather people manually yanked the threads they
actually want.

Thanks for the feedback, though -- I appreciate it.

Regards,
-K