Re: search for mark over Groups topic not working

["Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao@gnu.org>]

On Thu, Jun 03 2021, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:

> "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using the latest gnus-search in emacs master, with groups in nnimap
>> over several mailboxes and also notmuch folders, distributed among
>> several topics (all of them under [Gnus], no deeper nesting).  Searching
>> for marks on those topics (e.g. mark:!), works fine.  But when i go to
>> the [Gnus] parent topic and repeat the search, it always comes back
>> empty.  I see traces of all subgroups being searched, but the nnselect
>> group comes back empty.  Other searches (say, over the body of the
>> messages) work fine (i.e., if the search finds mails on topic [Foo]
>> under [Gnus], it also finds those same messages when the search is
>> performed on [Gnus]).
>>
>> Is anybody experiencing this problem?
>
> Sorry, I missed this when you first posted it.
>
> That's pretty weird! So to make sure I've got this right: the search
> only fails when you search the [Gnus] topic,

right

> and only when searching for marks?

i cannot say categorically that it's /only/ for marks, but it definitely
happens with marks.  i have an emacs compiled yesterday.

the logs in message show no error for the groups containing marked
articles.  only for the nndraft:drafts group:

  Search engine for nndraft: improperly configured: No search engine configured for nndraft:

(as far as i can tell, nndraft is an "automatic" server, i haven't added
it explicitly in my config, so i'm no sure what's the proper way of
configuring its search engine.)

and i also get one of those messages for the nnselect server (which i
guess it's a little bug, in that those groups cannot have a search
engine, can they?)

  Search engine for nnselect: improperly configured: No search engine configured for nnselect:

my expectation is that those errors shouldn't affect the collection of
results, right? all the other groups are either nnimap or nntp (with
notmuch as the search engine).

cheers,
jao