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

[Alexander Baier <lexi.baier@gmail.com>]

On 13-11-25 14:20 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:

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

[...]

>>
>> I did not yet give notmuch a look, could you point out what in your
>> opinion make notmuch more flexible than namazu?
>
> Hmm, I was afraid you'd ask that! :)
>
> As far as I can recall, the interface to namazu felt very slow, and the
> search syntax was much more awkward and limited than notmuch. Notmuch
> just feels easier to use: it caches recent queries, lets you filter
> previous queries more easily, and makes browsing the results quite easy
> -- it actually acts as its own little MUA, with threading and
> everything. (Actually that can be annoying when all you want is the
> original message.) Mairix can't do unicode indexing, so that was right
> out.
>

This sounds very nice! You mention notmuch comes with its own
MUA. Although this might be usefull in a lot of situations, I am looking
for something that can integrate with gnus. This means I would like to
have something, that displays the search results as a group in gnus that
I can act upon like the other nnir backends. A search through the (gnus-)
manual didn't turn up anything about notmuch as a nnir backend. Is this
just something missing from the manual, or does a nnir notmuch backend
simply not exist?

If there is no notmuch backend, how do you integrate notmuch into to
gnus? Or do you just use it outside gnus?

>
> Test-installing notmuch isn't too onerous (though the initial indexing
> is slow), it keeps all its business in one directory that you can nuke
> if you don't like it. It also ships with all the necessary elisp files.
> It's also under very active (borderline obsessive) development.
>

An active project certainly is another nice point. All the other
alternatives seem rather inactive to me. (Well, except mu)

>
> The notmuch developers paid me nothing for this message :)
>

Well, even if they did, I am glad for every input I can get :)

>
> Eric

Regards,
-- 
Alexander Baier