Re: Gnus search engine returns "Group nnselect:nnselect-877cqbir7v.fsf contains no messages"

["Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>]

Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:

> "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
>
>
>> In my case the problem turned out to be that I was querying an Exchange
>> server and that these are unable to deal with queries in UTF-8.  There
>> is a discussion regarding the issue here:
>>
>>   https://www.mail-archive.com/info-gnus-english@gnu.org/msg14117.html
>>
>> The fix given there is contained in Emacs 29, but maybe there has been a
>> regression for Emacs 30?
>
> Thanks for the pointer but I don't think that's what's causing my
> problem since I'm using gnus-search-notmuch on a maildir method.
>
> However, do you remember how you investigated the gnus-search process to
> pinpoint this error ?

I realized the problem did not occur with other, non-Exchange mail
accounts and so I asked one of the Exchange administrators (a colleague)
to log the IMAP query.  That gave me the error about the charset not
being supported.  Searching for that error lead me to the link above.

Cheers,

Loris

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