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=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 709 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2022 16:13:52 -0000 Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu (129.7.128.32) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 23 Mar 2022 16:13:52 -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 1nX3cM-0069hO-RJ for ml@inbox.vuxu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2022 11:13:50 -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 1nX3cM-006EIq-CU for ml@inbox.vuxu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2022 11:13:50 -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 1nWllN-0068jv-L4 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 22 Mar 2022 16:09:57 -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 1nWl1p-005JHG-S7 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 22 Mar 2022 15:22:57 -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=ZpM0/v9Z96ZU/5WjdH59KtPXeP2VhrQejL5w5nHayYs=; b=CI5CTN97xhzUnqrpchdY8PNh1X 5uZFaQpbZS0mqnx1ditNFM2aETp6h3fn52GLaBKg+LRcvTPz6ExL13LVSDesLQJiHnxHnKT0ZM5ek we6YrBiAPQhvVCWg815KR61ANLkHBk1zdFdBCqxXCECUxULQhfUndn/i4koUmtqHBy+s=; 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 1nWl1i-0001qx-QY for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2022 21:22:49 +0100 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nWl1h-0006kk-QR for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2022 21:22:45 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org To: ding@gnus.org From: Dan Christensen Subject: Re: gnus-search configuration example for notmuch Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 16:22:39 -0400 Message-ID: <87wnglu48g.fsf@uwo.ca> References: <87pmmfl20w.fsf@free.fr> <874k3qlw39.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87a6di2yim.fsf@free.fr> <87o81yja43.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bcWQDpuy5mwZt+RYpZ/TtEjc0Is= Mail-Copies-To: never List-ID: Precedence: bulk On Mar 22, 2022, Eric Abrahamsen 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