From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 8121 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2020 08:19:18 -0000 Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu (129.7.128.208) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 7 Jul 2020 08:19:18 -0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.92.3) (envelope-from ) id 1jsiob-0001MA-6P; Tue, 07 Jul 2020 03:18:57 -0500 Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92.3) (envelope-from ) id 1jsioW-0001JW-Pr for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 07 Jul 2020 03:18:52 -0500 Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1jsioT-00E3I7-EM for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 07 Jul 2020 03:18:52 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:Mime-Version:References:Message-ID:Date:Subject: From:To:Sender:Reply-To:Cc:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:In-Reply-To:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=ti7xe7PZXcinjOGpyhyqw95AykjSXTFnUWYV0n35cdM=; b=Iq7RvyX/yyYinpqDqvJAbFtJ0l rwdet08EWQZJSdnxCBfyUtDcij4bLPfG6+cvfgENAT/Phn76LIgQfx7/QT1fhnzn8iI6QDH3ZXGdb E29SBKoPshrToYu0gDPH2xtzkOiUcQy/k8lLIgJRMz8Iz8JCN0nTM3Buy+Mhj03/PCI4=; Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214] helo=ciao.gmane.io) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jsioL-0001nu-Gi for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2020 10:18:44 +0200 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jsioJ-0001yb-Cw for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2020 10:18:39 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: ding@gnus.org From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: Fetch range of older articles from nnimap? Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2020 09:18:34 +0100 Organization: On the Interweb somewhere Message-ID: <87mu4b20x1.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <867dvkbxxx.fsf@famsolberg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GQqNsr0WCrl3ZcjDt7tsp5IDcqc= X-Url: http://twitter.com/ericsfraga/ List-ID: Precedence: bulk On Friday, 3 Jul 2020 at 14:11, Bjorn Solberg wrote: > Is there currently a way to rather specify a range to be fetched, > e.g. "articles 1 -100", "articles 101 -200" and so on? You could try using nnir (G G on the group line) with full IMAP search syntax. Check out pages 50-51 of the RFC3501 specification [1] (BEFORE and SINCE search terms) and the gnus info page on the nnir search. Footnotes: [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501 -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.3.7 on Debian bullseye/sid