Re: [RFC] Gnus generalized search, part II

[Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>]

On Apr 23, 2017, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:

> Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:
>
>> Will mairix be supported?
>
> Sure! At least, I think so -- I'm not clear why nnmairix is its own
> server, rather than being an nnir engine. I think if it's used in raw
> mode it should work just like the other engines. At any rate, as many
> engines as possible should be supported.

I don't know much about how things work in the background, but mairix
produces a maildir of results, so maybe that's why it is handled
specially.  One of the great things about it is that it can already
combine results from maildirs and mboxes, so it already works across
(some) servers.

But from a configuration perspective, I've often had trouble with
nnmairix, so it would be great if it could be fitted into a more
general, stable set-up.

Maybe mairix's raw mode that you mention would help with this?  But
then Gnus would have to work backwords from the maildir paths and
nnfolder paths + position in file to figure out the messages...

>> How do you handle differing capabilities of the search backends?

[...]

> What do you think?

Sounds reasonable, especially if it is documented and maybe displays
warnings/messages in some cases.

Dan