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by oefrha 2245 days ago
The best solution to email filtering is not receiving irrelevant emails in the first place. It’s always funny seeing people bending over backwards to justify terrible inconveniences they’re merely used to.

Plus, an email program that handles automatic cross referencing of tickets and commits? Where can I find that “better email client”?
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emersion 2245 days ago
aerc [1] supports arbitrary content filters (programs invoked when showing a message body). These are used for quote and diff highlighting. It would be nice to write a filter that auto-links tickets and commits depending on the List-Id.

[1]: https://aerc-mail.org/

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oefrha 2245 days ago
Automatic cross referencing is more than linkifying ticket ids and commit hashes. Issues, PRs and commits elsewhere that reference an issue/PR show up automatically on its page (think pingbacks in blogging), which apparently doesn’t fit into the mailing list model at all.

Edit: Forgot to mention, even

> It would be nice to write a filter that auto-links tickets and commits depending on the List-Id.

is not possible with sr.ht, due to non-1-1 relationship between mailing list and repository/tracker.

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