From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68858 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Using the registry for `gnus-refer-article-method' Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:44:40 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87skgc4uif.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <8763d8opn4.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249062356 32606 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2009 17:45:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:45:56 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17278@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jul 31 19:45:49 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MWwAu-0004NP-Nx for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:45:49 +0200 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 1MWwA9-0000nl-O0; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:45:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MWwA7-0000nR-Pg for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:44:59 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MWwA7-0005cg-6G for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:44:59 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1MWwAg-0003LT-00 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:45:34 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MWwA3-0004Vc-OX for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:44:55 +0000 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:44:55 +0000 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:44:55 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vmj3oUJzw27ggOGvo/IYCmnx06M= X-Spam-Score: -1.5 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68858 Archived-At: On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:09:35 +0200 ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: LC> The capabilities of `gnus-refer-article-method' are back-end-dependent. LC> In particular, `nnimap' is only able to locate articles that have been LC> posted to the current group (info "(gnus) Finding the Parent"), which is LC> quite limiting. LC> Would it be possible to use the registry to work around such LC> limitations? The registry will tell you the group for a message ID (it has some other data but this is what you're looking for). You still have to go to that group and get the message with that ID. I don't believe this functionality has been written so far, but it shouldn't be too hard. Ted