From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83903 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: david.goldberg6@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Create a group from a list of message-ids Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 21:02:10 -0500 Message-ID: <844n71b5nh.fsf@davestoy.home> References: <87vbzjs5fk.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385344962 3134 80.91.229.3 (25 Nov 2013 02:02:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 02:02:42 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M32158@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Nov 25 03:02:46 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VklVc-0001zL-6S for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 03:02:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1VklVG-00069o-Vf; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 20:02:23 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1VklVE-00069e-HN for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 20:02:20 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1VklV5-0002ox-Na for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 20:02:20 -0600 Original-Received: from vms173025pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.25]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VklV4-0000wG-3Z for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 03:02:10 +0100 Original-Received: from davestoy.home.verizon.net ([unknown] [173.48.216.250]) by vms173025.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0MWS00LOYQYPRB80@vms173025.mailsrvcs.net> for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 20:01:38 -0600 (CST) X-Face: W!bie|rYVd43O:2CkHTb*~s5}Yzx30X<@6Tq_bnP56Hp!xX4sVl4tgYRirjRcke\wfY!JJ9 i?]VIUJicJzq2\!3%7$5R%wi!R[.]Va97q In-reply-to: <87vbzjs5fk.fsf@gmail.com> (Alexander Baier's message of "Sat, 23 Nov 2013 12:50:23 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -0.5 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83903 Archived-At: > Hello, > I use a tool called mu [1] to index and search my mail, which is stored > in a Maildir folder. mu is able to give me the message ids of all the > mails that match a given query. I want to use these ids to create a new > group in gnus that shows the search result. So it basically boils down > to this: > Is there a function or facility in gnus that takes a list of message-ids > (or even a list of local path names) and creates a new group containing > the corresponding messages? > I am fine with writing some elisp to call out to mu and converting its > output to a list, I just need above mentioned functionality. nnir.el provides an interface to various search capabilities and although I can't speak to it as I don't use it, I see maildir mentioned for one of the backends. Perhaps that is enough to get you started. -- Dave Goldberg david.goldberg6@verizon.net