Re: gnus-search-imap and quoted queries

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@sergiodj.net> writes:

> On Tuesday, April 19 2022, dick wrote:
>
>> C-u G G from "Debian FTP Masters"
>
> Nothing changed.
>
>> The C-u says:
>> "I'm using Dovecot's query syntax, not Gnus's, so don't mess with it."
>
> I'm aware of what C-u does in this case, but IIUC the new gnus-search
> backend should translate my query into Dovecot's parlance if
> gnus-search-use-parsed-queries if t, which it is.  Or am I
> misunderstanding something?

It's possible that something has gone wrong with the handling of the
quotes. An easy way to tell what's Gnus is looking at is to run:

(let* ((q "from:\"Debian FTP Masters\"")
       (parsed (gnus-search-parse-query q))
       (engine (make-instance 'gnus-search-imap :literal-plus t)))
  (gnus-search-transform engine parsed))

"FROM {20+}
\"Debian FTP Masters\""

I set :literal-plus because I think that's Dovecot's config out of the
box. You can also replace the ad-hoc engine there with your actual
engine, by finding it in `gnus-search-engine-instance-alist'.

If the results look normal to you, the method to edebug is probably
`gnus-search-imap-search-command'.

Eric