From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69112 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnir searching in huge imap folders Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:20:38 +0200 Message-ID: <87d44r4v5l.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255418516 7289 80.91.229.12 (13 Oct 2009 07:21:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:21:56 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17526@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 13 09:21:47 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mxbhb-0002fy-DV for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:21:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MxbgZ-0007Ly-DS; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:20:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MxbgX-0007Lg-FR for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:20:41 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MxbgW-0001ZF-0s for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:20:41 -0500 Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.64.15]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1MxbgV-0006HQ-00 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:20:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A553478A1914 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:20:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (deliver.uni-koblenz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 17460-02 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:20:38 +0200 (CEST) X-CHKRCPT: Envelopesender vrfy tassilo@member.fsf.org Original-Received: from thinkpad.tsdh.de (unknown [141.26.95.119]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2071178A190C for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:20:38 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: (Steinar Bang's message of "Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:10:54 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at uni-koblenz.de X-Spam-Score: -5.6 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69112 Archived-At: Steinar Bang 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