From: Alexander Baier <lexi.baier@gmail.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Create a group from a list of message-ids
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:13:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87siukalp5.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d2lo4zy7.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:01:52 +0700")
Hello Eric,
On 13-11-25 10:01 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> Alexander Baier <lexi.baier@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello David,
>>
>> On 13-11-25 03:02 Dave Goldberg wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I use a tool called mu [1] to index and search my mail, which is stored
>>>> in a Maildir folder. mu is able to give me the message ids of all the
>>>> mails that match a given query. I want to use these ids to create a new
>>>> group in gnus that shows the search result. So it basically boils down
>>>> to this:
>>>
>>>> Is there a function or facility in gnus that takes a list of message-ids
>>>> (or even a list of local path names) and creates a new group containing
>>>> the corresponding messages?
>>>
>>>> I am fine with writing some elisp to call out to mu and converting its
>>>> output to a list, I just need above mentioned functionality.
>>>
>>> nnir.el provides an interface to various search capabilities and
>>> although I can't speak to it as I don't use it, I see maildir
>>> mentioned for one of the backends. Perhaps that is enough to get you
>>> started.
>>
>> Thank you for that tipp. I just looked at a few backends for nnir and
>> found that the namazu backend provides similar if not the same
>> capabilities as the command line utility mu.
>>
>> I will look into this and see if it meets my demands.
>
> If you're willing to consider switching indexing backends, I'd also
> recommend notmuch, which I found more flexible and easier to use than
> namazu or mairix.
>
> Eric
I did not yet give notmuch a look, could you point out what in your
opinion make notmuch more flexible than namazu?
Thanks,
--
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-25 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-23 11:50 Alexander Baier
2013-11-25 2:02 ` Dave Goldberg
2013-11-25 8:52 ` Alexander Baier
2013-11-25 8:58 ` Frank Terbeck
2013-11-25 9:11 ` Alexander Baier
2013-11-25 9:01 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-11-25 9:13 ` Alexander Baier [this message]
2013-11-25 13:20 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-11-25 14:08 ` Alexander Baier
2013-11-25 15:26 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-11-25 15:44 ` Frank Terbeck
2013-11-26 4:06 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-11-27 5:16 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-11-27 7:34 ` Alexander Baier
2013-11-27 8:10 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-11-27 8:22 ` Alexander Baier
2013-11-28 12:02 ` Alexander Baier
2013-11-29 3:41 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-11-30 18:56 ` Alexander Baier
2013-11-25 16:11 ` Alexander Baier
2013-11-25 9:28 ` Pedro Silva
2013-11-25 9:44 ` Alexander Baier
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