From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76597 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Yuri D'Elia Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Reading old news Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:35:03 +0100 Message-ID: <87y65lpmlk.fsf@savara.sat.thregr.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297506930 16565 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2011 10:35:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:35:30 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24941@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Feb 12 11:35:26 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PoCp0-0002Jy-Qi for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:35:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PoCoy-0004B2-8y; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:35:20 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PoCow-0004Ai-Ob for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:35:18 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PoCov-00062S-EA for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:35:18 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PoCou-0004Sb-N9 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:35:16 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PoCot-0002HU-Vn for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:35:16 +0100 Original-Received: from 88-149-140-188.dynamic.ngi.it ([88.149.140.188]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:35:15 +0100 Original-Received: from wavexx by 88-149-140-188.dynamic.ngi.it with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:35:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88-149-140-188.dynamic.ngi.it User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bTSIrhdzswoQb6f1+kiqt6IXYC8= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76597 Archived-At: Hi everyone. I'm using Gnus to read my mail from several IMAP accounts and I whenever I need to look back into my mail archives I feel like I'm not using Gnus optimally. Let's say I'm looking for some old email a colleague sent me last week. My first approach would be: - nnir with the colleague's name, or possibly subject - then limit to the last week with '/ t' - look for the relevant email - re-construct the thread with 'A T' (which doesn't seem to work too well to me, the thread reconstruction is always partial and I need to repeat "A T" on the parent group - yes, gather-limit is already nil). This looks too convoluted. Can I get the last week worth of articles from a group directly? nnir on large groups is slow if all I need is a search in the last ~500 articles. Right now to do that I simply enter an existing group, enter a large (but random) number of articles to read, then limit. Another usage pattern that I would like to optimize: let's say I'm looking for an old conversation I had last week, I want to see all threads that have a particular author or subject. I can search with nnir, or open the last week-or-so of messages, but then I want to reconstruct *all* threads I've found automatically, so that I'm getting the big picture. Since reconstructing all threads is bothersome, I simply read a group with a very large number of articles to read, then (ab)use limit. I feel like I would use an "enter group with an artibrary article limit command" feature. Any suggestion or alternative usage pattern greatly appreciated. Bests