Re: using nnmairix

[Angel de Vicente <angel.vicente.garrido@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> One thing to note is that, in Emacs master, there's no real need for
> nnmairix anymore. AFAIK its main selling point was persistent search
> groups, and nnselect can do that now, using mairix as a search backend.
> It'll probably be more reliable, too.

I can't believe how loooooong it took me to try this out, but today I
ditched nnmairix in favour of nnselect+mairix, and I can say I'm really
happy about it: no more nnmairix quirks, plus search is really
fast.

Mairix search (as far as I could see from the G G command) is not very
flexible (so, for example, I cannot limit searches by author/body/etc.)
but once you get the summary of all the mails that match a particular
query, very nice fine-tuning can be done with the "Limiting" commands.

I wish I had taken the time to do this sooner.

Cheers,
-- 
Ángel de Vicente

Research Software Engineer (Supercomputing and BigData)
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (https://www.iac.es/en)