Re: no Gnus v0.11, imap (cyrus) & nnir : 'Search produced empty results'

[Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net>]

On  4 Oct 2010, Michael Welsh Duggan wrote:


[...]

>
> I've decided that this is a bug in Cyrus, but with a simple workaround
> in gnus.  
>
> The following fails:
>
> X UID SEARCH  TEXT "test"
>
> The following succeeds:
>
> X UID SEARCH TEXT "test"
>
> Note the one space difference.  Here is a workaround patch:


Excellent. The patch works here! (Pardon me asking: how did you figure
this out? I'd like to learn how to do this.)

[...]

>failures when the search returns several thousand entries.

I get failures when the result is 'a lot' too. 

I notice this difference:

A succesfull search does this in the *Message* buffer:

,----
| Opening server thuis
| Searching nnimap+thuis:INBOX.cio...done
| Retrieving newsgroup: nnir:((query . "Jan") (unique-id . "874od26jep.fsf"))...
`----

An unsuccessful search will then prompt me in the minibuffer"
"How  many articles from nnir:((query . "Herwin") (unique-id
. "871v866jab.fsf")) (default 387) :

And when I hit enter the minibuffer will say 0kb and seems to be stuck,
I have to C-g. (I do *not* get a response from the debugger here)

In the Message buffer I see this:

Opening server thuis
Searching nnimap+thuis:INBOX.t4c...done
Retrieving newsgroup: nnir:((query . "Herwin") (unique-id . "871v866jab.fsf"))...