From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 6566 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2022 17:04:04 -0000 Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu (129.7.128.33) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 23 Mar 2022 17:04:04 -0000 Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1nX4Ow-00BKeW-DJ for ml@inbox.vuxu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2022 12:04:02 -0500 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1nX4Ov-006Fh6-Qf for ml@inbox.vuxu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2022 12:04:01 -0500 Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1nX4Ou-006Fgz-Fl for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 23 Mar 2022 12:04:00 -0500 Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1nX4Or-006CZ4-Ho for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 23 Mar 2022 12:03:59 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:Mime-Version:References:Message-ID:Date:Subject: From:To:Sender:Reply-To:Cc:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:In-Reply-To:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=87IVktWEas9G1vla8VkJMwJtJT3qaIIBexJfcjV+JUY=; b=NRMAK6xsiom/W0QNIBDQEX7gRH k6qbH53+8NTujEGmOqTyQ8B739xWZGzT2hCcls1CjlvBkTjlZ6IkshCYQOXcFV2sGcEGPBY12uZ2I 51fUMF5t5RmO2dcoZnKlLQ7yCVD/TyjIzkp8TNgBpoDVkym6kmyYf82MduyvukooZKyQ=; Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nX4Ol-0006Iv-CZ for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2022 18:03:53 +0100 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nX4Ok-00061y-6H for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2022 18:03:50 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org To: ding@gnus.org From: Dan Christensen Subject: Re: gnus-search configuration example for notmuch Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 13:03:41 -0400 Message-ID: <874k3od2j6.fsf@uwo.ca> References: <87pmmfl20w.fsf@free.fr> <874k3qlw39.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87a6di2yim.fsf@free.fr> <87o81yja43.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87wnglu48g.fsf@uwo.ca> <87h77oiq01.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EQtfvEA4bX16FYyQmxTBKkY0Fmk= Mail-Copies-To: never List-ID: Precedence: bulk On Mar 23, 2022, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Dan Christensen writes: > >> On Mar 22, 2022, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> >>> To add to what everyone else has said: most of the mail backends (nnml, >>> nnmaildir, etc) keep their messages as files on the file system, so any >>> search engine that indexes files and gives you full filenames back as >>> search results (including notmuch, namazu, mairix) will work with them. >>> It's really nnimap that is a special case >> >> I guess nnfolder is also a special case? > > I don't think nnfolder is a special case: as long as both the Gnus > backend and the search engine deal in absolute file paths, they should > be able to talk to one another. If something special needs to be done to > translate mairix search results into something that nnfolder can > understand, I'd like to know about that and implement it. With nnfolder, each file contains an entire group's worth of messages. So how can it work if mairix provides just a list of full filenames? Dan