From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 30873 invoked from network); 31 May 2022 22:00:46 -0000 Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu (129.7.128.32) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 31 May 2022 22:00:46 -0000 Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1nw9uu-004otN-3O for ml@inbox.vuxu.org; Tue, 31 May 2022 17:00:44 -0500 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1nw9ut-009JQs-CV for ml@inbox.vuxu.org; Tue, 31 May 2022 17:00:43 -0500 Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1nw9ur-009JQj-23 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 31 May 2022 17:00:41 -0500 Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1nw9uo-004ot4-AA for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 31 May 2022 17:00:40 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:Mime-Version:References:Message-ID:Date:Subject: From:To:Sender:Reply-To:Cc:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:In-Reply-To:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=3/pdy9XgI+V26kp/SElzZ558K++NWtNIy0gGo1M3uQM=; b=ZdwRlj/EW+ZhHvOgVpO3JQPjAj 9gOdD9/lOER4UYA6qkGc2V84WhYyEpr+ypM0qqsvk2bvTxO9WTNvhFTAfhWw7bM1JfAk8w6Vqo7vS r/1rEYbUtaiaMZEjbI/FQ3+lXPbdQlretGKwA6dBNReyGXI7iqkyq/EYsTn8hIp7lMOc=; Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nw9uf-0002u6-JB for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:32 +0200 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nw9ud-00040O-Il for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: ding@gnus.org From: Eric Abrahamsen Subject: Re: using nnmairix Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 15:00:20 -0700 Message-ID: <87v8tl9xcb.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <871rp3pdqn.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87mu7re2jq.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <874ktz5mnu.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87y2rb6zpx.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87a73rdz7s.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87zhbp57o5.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87blhpqwoy.fsf@gmail.com> <87wo01mw6h.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87ilprmd47.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UDNFIKMZc8VgNXnv+3yT1PbiWog= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Angel de Vicente writes: > Hello, > > Eric Abrahamsen 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! :)