Re: mail group by author?

[Vegard Vesterheim <vegard.vesterheim@uninett.no>]

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:42:59 +0200 Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
>>>> There is also the nnir search back end which works with several
>>>> different search engines, including the IMAP search features, so if
>>>> you're using nnimap this might be the easiest solution (nnmairix can
>>>> be used via ssh, but that's a bit cumbersome to set up).
>>>
>>> nnir seaches only in the group point is on.
>>
>> The last time I used it (with namazu) it searched whatever the search
>> index covers.
>
> Yes, this may be different for indexing search engines.  But for nnimap
> it seems to be local for a group.  (But maybe this can be changed with
> some configuration bits.)

It is possible to mark (gnus-topic-mark-topic) several groups, and issue a
nnimap search (gnus-group-make-nnir-group) across all marked groups.

 - Vegard V -