Re: is it possible to search by list-id?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

"Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao@gnu.org> writes:

> On Sat, Jul 10 2021, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
>>> by dovecot's fts) simply with:
>>>
>>>   (add-to-list 'gnus-search-expandable-keys "list-id")
>>>
>>> that is makng the error parsing the query go away, and transforming to
>>> the spec ((list-id . "foo")), which in turn dovecot's IMAP search engine
>>> seems to like.
>>>
>>> not sure if this is intended behaviour, but, as they say,
>>> se non è vero, è ben trovato! :)
>>
>> No, this was a misunderstanding about how `completion-all-completions'
>> works, the queries are definitely meant to pass unknown keywords
>> straight through to the underlying engine. I've patched this now, and
>> added new tests to prevent regression. Thanks for pointing it out!
>
> Excellent! Thanks a lot.  It's still nice to add extra keys one uses
> often to gnus-search-expandable-keys, i think that i'm keeping that in
> my config.

Yes, you should definitely make personal use of this option for common
keywords.