From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86618 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: myglc2 Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: notmuch is limited to a single local mail store, right? Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 07:50:53 -0500 Message-ID: <87k2nbhuqa.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87bn8n1sdq.fsf@gmail.com> <87lh7rif52.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452862551 31951 80.91.229.3 (15 Jan 2016 12:55:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:55:51 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34845@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jan 15 13:55:38 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aK3uj-0001T4-0e for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:55:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aK3ub-0007T3-Si; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 06:55:29 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aK3uZ-0007ST-CM for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 06:55:27 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aK3uX-0000Mb-Hr for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 06:55:27 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aK3uV-0006dm-Jn for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:55:23 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aK3uH-0001B6-Q0 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:55:14 +0100 Original-Received: from c-73-167-118-254.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([73.167.118.254]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:55:04 +0100 Original-Received: from myglc2 by c-73-167-118-254.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:55:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-73-167-118-254.hsd1.ma.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lZoTPXJwcI7UalwM4MJwGWVBGRQ= X-Spam-Score: -1.8 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86618 Archived-At: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: > myglc2 writes: > >> I found it confusing that gnus lets you have multiple maildir folders >> fronted by multiple nnmaildir "servers" but nnir + notmuch can search >> only one. > > Why? Gnus and notmuch are separate projects with different concepts and > ideas. Right, of course. > If you have separate servers, I guess you can have a separate notmuch > index per server? notmuch does not support making more than one index. > I would think that you would lose the ability to search across the > servers/indexes, but maybe that is what you want, when you split them > up? I was thinking I wanted to split them up for backup and other purposes.