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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: using nnmairix
Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 15:00:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8tl9xcb.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ilprmd47.fsf@gmail.com>

Angel de Vicente <angel.vicente.garrido@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> One thing to note is that, in Emacs master, there's no real need for
>> nnmairix anymore. AFAIK its main selling point was persistent search
>> groups, and nnselect can do that now, using mairix as a search backend.
>> It'll probably be more reliable, too.
>
> I can't believe how loooooong it took me to try this out, but today I
> ditched nnmairix in favour of nnselect+mairix, and I can say I'm really
> happy about it: no more nnmairix quirks, plus search is really
> fast.
>
> Mairix search (as far as I could see from the G G command) is not very
> flexible (so, for example, I cannot limit searches by author/body/etc.)
> but once you get the summary of all the mails that match a particular
> query, very nice fine-tuning can be done with the "Limiting" commands.
>
> I wish I had taken the time to do this sooner.

Glad to hear it! :)



  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-31 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-04 13:44 Eric S Fraga
2020-04-04 14:41 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-04-04 14:51   ` Eric S Fraga
2020-04-04 15:24     ` Eric S Fraga
2020-04-04 15:53       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-04-06  8:40         ` Eric S Fraga
2020-04-06 15:32           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-04-06 19:51             ` Eric S Fraga
2020-09-28 23:59           ` Angel de Vicente
2020-09-30 13:00             ` Eric S Fraga
2020-10-07 23:51             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-05-27 11:25               ` Angel de Vicente
2022-05-31 22:00                 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2022-05-31 23:31                   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-31 23:40                     ` Eric Abrahamsen

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