From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57929 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Searching emails on an IMAP server? Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:10:19 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <863c4olwno.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087834257 4704 80.91.224.253 (21 Jun 2004 16:10:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:10:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6470@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jun 21 18:10:51 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BcRNi-0004mL-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:10:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BcRNS-0007Lc-00; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:10:34 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BcRNH-0007LU-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:10:23 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BcRNF-0001HP-3M for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:10:21 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4205B3A0035 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:10:20 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BcRND-0003ui-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:10:19 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e1e2e0.dip.t-dialin.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1087834219 14531 217.225.226.224 (21 Jun 2004 16:10:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:10:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/1woXFe8YD/xldprmrOC7mU+yR0= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57929 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57929 Niklas Morberg writes: > The thing I haven't found yet is how to get any of these > search methods to play nice with IMAP -- they all seem to > want local files to work with. You could use the Agent to cache mails locally. Then you can tell your favorite search engine to pick them up. > Maybe I could run a cron job that copies mail off my IMAP > server and stores them locally (just like Zoe)? That would be possible, though with the Agent, Gnus can do it. > Or maybe use Zoe just as an email fetch script and use another > search engine to index them? A Zoe backed to gnus would be another > option, but I don't think I could pull off writing one. How does one talk to Zoe? Writing a backend is not that difficult. The backend interface is documented well enough, and you don't have to understand why all the functions are supposed to be present, you just implement what it says in the documentation and all is well. The most difficult part for me was to understand the terminology. But the terminology is explained in the node "Back End Interface". Kai