Re: Broken IMAP search with nnir.el

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:

Hi Simon,

>> 1. If I search the group INBOX it finds some messages in subgroups
>>    thereof, but not all. For example if I search for "Welcome" it finds
>>    messages in a lot of subfolders, but if I search for "Frank Schmitt",
>>    it'll say "gnus-group-read-ephemeral-group: Couldn't request group:
>>    Search produced empty results.", althought there are some messages
>>    from him in different groups. If I do `G G' on those groups directly,
>>    his messages are found.
>
> Do (setq imap-log t) and repeat the searches and post the *imap-log*
> buffer contents.  Unless there is a silly bug in nnir, I'd say it is
> your server that isn't returning the correct data.

Damn, I'm dumb! The searches don't search subfolders, but I had some
copies of messages in other folders in my inbox, so I got the impression
it would search subfolders, too.

So point 1 is clearly a bug in my brain, not in nnir.el. Maybe I should
get an update. ;-)

>> 2. If I hit RET on the search results in the *Summary* buffer, sometimes
>>    a wrong message gets displayed in the *Article* buffer. See
>>
>>        http://www.tsdh.de/images/nnir-imap-wrong-msg.png
>>
>>    As you can see, the subject in summary and article buffer are
>>    different. "Frank Schmitt" is another recipient of the message
>>    displayed in *Article*, but it's not displayed in *Summary* and the
>>    linkage is wrong.
>
> This may be due to caching -- when you search with nnir the second
> time, it re-uses the article numbers since the first search, and if
> articles from the first search were cached, they will be displayed.
> This is just a theory though.

Yes, the displayed message was part of a former search result. Is it
possible to disable this caching?

And another thing: Is it possible to jump from a search result message
to the original message, so that the correct Posting Styles and Group
Parameters are used when I want to reply/forward/whatsoever?

Bye,
Tassilo
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