Re: nnir searching in huge imap folders

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

Hi Steinar,

> Heh... when I really, really, need some stuff that's in there, I ssh
> in to the IMAP server, and grep through the articles (the folders are
> stored as maildir and served by a dovecot IMAP server).
>
> But that's clumsy.

Indeed. ;-)

> I've read about nnir, and have planned to look into it, for quite a
> few years now... and I guess the time has finally come to actually do
> so.
>
> The behaviour I'm looking for, is to be able to enter my main inbox
> group, and to fire off a search from there, that will search that
> particular IMAP folder, as well as its archive folder, and bring back
> the results inside the group.
>
> Is this possible?

The normal "workflow" would be to mark both the INBOX and its archive
group in the *Group* buffer, then hit `G G' and enter your search terms.
This will open an ephemeral nnir summary buffer with all matching
articles from the marked groups.

> Or is it, as is indicated in the comments in the nnir.el header, only
> possible to do searches from the Group buffer?

Yes, at least I think so.

Bye,
Tassilo