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How can I search for articles in my mailboxes without first fetching
them? I have thousands in my INBOX. Do I need to enter the group and
tell gnus to fetch and format thousands of mails before I can use "/ a"
for example? nnir isn't really useful since the resulting group isnt a
true mail group and lacks features normally found in the summary (with
move being  one).

I asked this in another thread but thought I'd repost with a dedicated
subject as there no reply.