Korgalore
Korgalore is a tool for feeding public-inbox git repositories directly into mail targets (Gmail, JMAP, IMAP, or local maildir) as an alternative to subscribing. It provides a workaround for Gmail’s notorious hostility to high-volume technical mailing list traffic.
Warning
This is beta-quality software. It can explode or cause you to miss mail.
Overview
Gmail is notoriously hostile to high-volume technical mailing list traffic. It will routinely throttle incoming messages, mark them as spam, or just drop them outright based on some unknown internal heuristic. Gmail’s throttling is responsible for hundreds of thousands of messages sitting in the kernel.org mail queue just waiting to be delivered.
Korgalore can feed public-inbox archives and lei search results directly into your mail system of choice, bypassing most of Gmail’s hostile anti-features when used with Gmail targets.
About the Name
It’s a play on “k.org lore” and “Orgalorg,” who is a primordial cosmic entity in the Adventure Time universe – the “breaker of worlds,” which is basically what Gmail is to mailing lists.
Features
Direct integration with public-inbox repositories
Support for lore.kernel.org archives
Support for lei searches
Multiple delivery targets:
Gmail (via REST API)
JMAP servers (e.g., Fastmail)
IMAP servers
Local maildir
Pipe commands
GNOME taskbar application for background syncing
Bozofilter for blocking unwanted senders
Non-features
No filtering beyond bozofilter (use lei for that)
No querying (use lei for that)
