From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83909 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexander Baier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Create a group from a list of message-ids Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:13:10 +0100 Message-ID: <87siukalp5.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87vbzjs5fk.fsf@gmail.com> <844n71b5nh.fsf@davestoy.home> <871u24c18u.fsf@gmail.com> <87d2lo4zy7.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385370820 23621 80.91.229.3 (25 Nov 2013 09:13:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 09:13:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Eric Abrahamsen Original-X-From: ding-owner+M32164@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Nov 25 10:13:44 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VksEg-0003D1-Qh for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:13:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1VksEe-00084v-8f; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 03:13:40 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1VksEc-00084i-VI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 03:13:38 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1VksEY-00042l-33 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 03:13:38 -0600 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com ([209.85.212.182]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VksEW-0003Jk-Ne for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:13:32 +0100 Original-Received: by mail-wi0-f182.google.com with SMTP id en1so5117179wid.15 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 01:13:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:mail-followup-to:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=AO3SJWT0DYX66S+m5Ze1IIrDIOgZWZK3X3Tu1QqX33s=; b=U8kwoQsT4RAtMjMEVZ0hEvOOks/gkhJzkUtsEblCcM0N73yFWwzE2P/nmTV4czD5Zs c1H3nn1LG1JNo06bv4SCc1sT4m+hzUIuR1j3cML7wpQ4+mN5UeGPYS8+fF3jyLAjAK4A GIQ+bYClsctm4+KKnFBWNVtUADbbMo8TddZm0AC+C4s95jK8xdDTtyCyPWvvCNTsF5Kr lCG3gG0MpHIN5qNFMIobK4yUq6KFHo28eLMZ4PhQK4kzU3iUi1bkqhTI31b+phe5VBP1 8BskkT1nIJAapmX24xTMb5H0iSBPRqH7J12b6vpivn4cd9VjSMvY5KHsVWdHCvjIGOph QiGw== X-Received: by 10.194.206.5 with SMTP id lk5mr802170wjc.46.1385370807362; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 01:13:27 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from T420s (nat-wh-wh36.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de. [141.70.81.154]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id w1sm12082215wib.6.2013.11.25.01.13.26 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 25 Nov 2013 01:13:27 -0800 (PST) Mail-Followup-To: Eric Abrahamsen , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87d2lo4zy7.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:01:52 +0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83909 Archived-At: Hello Eric, On 13-11-25 10:01 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Alexander Baier 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