From: Bjorn Solberg <bs_ding+ding@hekneby.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Fetch range of older articles from nnimap?
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2020 13:46:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86sge31rax.fsf@famsolberg.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mu4b20x1.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Tue, 07 Jul 2020 09:18:34 +0100")
On Tue, Jul 07 2020 at 09:18:34 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Friday, 3 Jul 2020 at 14:11, Bjorn Solberg wrote:
>> Is there currently a way to rather specify a range to be fetched,
>> e.g. "articles 1 -100", "articles 101 -200" and so on?
>
> You could try using nnir (G G on the group line) with full IMAP search
> syntax. Check out pages 50-51 of the RFC3501 specification [1] (BEFORE
> and SINCE search terms) and the gnus info page on the nnir search.
Thanks, that prompted me to finally look into nnir. The info pages were
somewhat slim with no examples, but also looking at the code I ended up
with e.g.
C-u G G since 10-Jan-2010 before 10-Feb-2010 RET imap RET
gave me what I needed. Thanks for the help!
Bjorn
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-07 11:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-03 12:11 Bjorn Solberg
2020-07-07 8:18 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-07-07 11:46 ` Bjorn Solberg [this message]
2020-07-07 14:24 ` Eric S Fraga
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