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From: dick.r.chiang@gmail.com
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: how to visit a message by its ID and group name?
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 08:11:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eep12jv7.fsf@dick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lfj9wamx.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (Uwe Brauer's message of "Fri, 24 Jul 2020 11:00:22 +0200")

nnml-find-group-number takes a second `server` argument, which you 
might hardcode to empty string, but like all things gnus, it's 
fragile.

Under the info node "Summary Buffer -> Finding the Parent", some 
clues are given

> Most of the mail back ends support fetching by ‘Message-ID’, but 
> do not do a particularly excellent job at it.  That is, 
> ‘nnmbox’, ‘nnbabyl’, ‘nnmaildir’, ‘nnml’, are able to locate 
> articles from any groups, while ‘nnfolder’, and ‘nnimap’ are 
> only able to locate articles that have been posted to the 
> current group.  ‘nnmh’ does not support this at all.

I use nnimap but all my attempts at `M-x 
gnus-summary-refer-article` failed.  The info node goes on to say,

> Fortunately, the special ‘nnregistry’ back end is able to locate 
> articles in any groups, regardless of their back end (*note 
> fetching by ‘Message-ID’ using the registry: Registry Article 
> Refer Method.).

This didn't work for me either, but I didn't try very hard.  As the Message-Id
looks like <61f22aad-0e47-438d-b4af-bec4e8191a1b@meta.discourse.org>, it seems
unwieldy to get at a message from its Message-Id.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-24 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-24  9:00 Uwe Brauer
2020-07-24 12:11 ` dick.r.chiang [this message]
2020-07-24 16:08   ` Uwe Brauer
2020-07-24 17:20   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-07-24 22:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2020-07-25  7:26   ` Uwe Brauer
2020-07-25 15:57     ` Emanuel Berg
2020-07-26  6:35       ` Uwe Brauer
2020-07-26 15:17         ` Amin Bandali
2020-07-26 19:12           ` Uwe Brauer
2020-07-26 15:45         ` two questions on archive (was: Re: how to visit a message by its ID and group name?) Emanuel Berg
2020-07-26 16:03           ` Emanuel Berg
2020-07-27  8:32           ` [(message-news-p)???] (was: two questions on archive) Uwe Brauer
2020-07-27  8:43             ` [(message-news-p)???] Adam Sjøgren
2020-07-27 10:14               ` [(message-news-p)???] Uwe Brauer
2020-07-28  3:16             ` [(message-news-p)???] Emanuel Berg
2020-08-03 20:48           ` two questions on archive David Rogers
2020-08-03 20:56             ` Emanuel Berg
2020-07-26 15:39 ` how to visit a message by its ID and group name? Christian Barthel

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