Re: Bug with referring articles

[Andrew Cohen <cohen@andy.bu.edu>]

>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:


    Dave> This is really nice!  I can get this to work for my current
    Dave> server by setting `gnus-refer-article-method' to:

    Dave>   (current (nnir))

    Dave> [However, I note that the customization interface doesn't give
    Dave> me any way to produce that value]

I'll get around to adding the customize stuff at some point.

    Dave> The first problem with this is that it searches all the groups
    Dave> (of which I happen to have many).  Since I'm using Gmail's
    Dave> servers, there's one group (called [Gmail]/All Mail) where it
    Dave> can find every message.  Is there a way to get it to look in
    Dave> just that one group?

Certain group scan be eliminated from nnir searching by using the
variable `nnir-ignored-newsgroups'. This is a regex so you should be
able to configure it to do what you want. However you might consider
doing the opposite (leave out the "All Mail" group and search the
rest). Although possibly slower, this will keep the information about
what group each found message is in which could be helpful if you do
much sorting of messages into different groups.

    Dave> Secondly, I couldn't figure out what should go in the element
    Dave> after nnir if I wanted to specify that server directly.
    Dave> Here's my `gnus-select-method':

Each element in `gnus-refer-article-method' is a select method (with the
exception of the special symbol `current'). You can read about select
methods in the manual. The specification of an nnir select method has
the usual form (nnir "server").  Leaving out the server simply defaults
to searching the server from which the article-referral process was
called.


    Dave>   (nnimap "BoostPro" (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")
    Dave> (nnimap-stream ssl) (nnimap-authenticator login)
    Dave> (nnimap-nov-is-evil t))

This is a valid select method for an nnimap server. It will have nothing
to do with searching with nnir.

    Dave> Lastly, is there any way to get this lookup to try the agent
    Dave> first?  If I have the article on my local machine and I'm
    Dave> disconnected, it seems like I ought to be able to get to it
    Dave> still.

I don't know much about the agent. I believe that the agent is is set on
a per-server basis. Since nnir is about searching only (it produces
"ephemeral" groups) it can't be agentized.

Regards,
Andy