On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 07:10:49PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > > For the bugzilla integration work I'm doing, I need a way to check if there > > were any updates to a thread since the last check. Right now, I'm just > > grabbing the full thread, parsing it and seeing if there are any new > > message-IDs that we don't know about, but it's very wasteful. Any way to > > just > > issue something like "how many messages are in a thread with this > > message-id" > > or "are there any updates to a thread with this message-id since > > YYYYMMDDHHMMSS? > > lei q -t --only /path/to/(inbox|extindex) mid:$MSGID rt:APPROXIDATE.. > > Returns JSON and won't retrieve message bodies from git.
Ah, I was hoping to have a fully remote way of doing this. > I wouldn't query down to the second due to propagation delays, > clock skew, etc, though. > > There might be a JMAP endpoint I can implement for WWW which > only retrieves that info, but getting backreferences (required > by the JMAP spec) to work properly seemed painful. What about a "bodiless" atom feed? It's already available per thread, so perhaps there could be a mode that skips the bodies or trims them after the first paragraph? -K
