Re: Create a group from a list of message-ids

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Alexander Baier <lexi.baier@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello David,
>
> On 13-11-25 03:02 Dave Goldberg wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I use a tool called mu [1] to index and search my mail, which is stored
>>> in a Maildir folder. mu is able to give me the message ids of all the
>>> mails that match a given query. I want to use these ids to create a new
>>> group in gnus that shows the search result. So it basically boils down
>>> to this:
>>
>>> Is there a function or facility in gnus that takes a list of message-ids
>>> (or even a list of local path names) and creates a new group containing
>>> the corresponding messages?
>>
>>> I am fine with writing some elisp to call out to mu and converting its
>>> output to a list, I just need above mentioned functionality.
>>
>> nnir.el provides an interface to various search capabilities and
>> although I can't speak to it as I don't use it, I see maildir
>> mentioned for one of the backends.  Perhaps that is enough to get you
>> started.
>
> Thank you for that tipp. I just looked at a few backends for nnir and
> found that the namazu backend provides similar if not the same
> capabilities as the command line utility mu.
>
> I will look into this and see if it meets my demands.

If you're willing to consider switching indexing backends, I'd also
recommend notmuch, which I found more flexible and easier to use than
namazu or mairix.

Eric