Re: gnus-search configuration example for notmuch

[Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>]

On Mar 22, 2022, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:

> To add to what everyone else has said: most of the mail backends (nnml,
> nnmaildir, etc) keep their messages as files on the file system, so any
> search engine that indexes files and gives you full filenames back as
> search results (including notmuch, namazu, mairix) will work with them.
> It's really nnimap that is a special case, as you're not supposed to
> know or care where/how it stores its messages, and instead use the
> client/server interface.

I guess nnfolder is also a special case?  My mail is currently split
between nnfolder and nnimap (using dovecot), and my current search
engine is mairix, which can provide its results as a folder full of
files each containing a single message.  Right now I use nnmairix to
view my search results, but it is a bit buggy and doesn't have some
features than gnus-search and nnselect seem to have, so I wouldn't
mind switching.  But since I'm pretty familiar with the mairix search
syntax, I'd like to keep using mairix.  Is this not possible?

Dan