Using nnir.el to search multiple IMAP servers?

Using nnir.el to search multiple IMAP servers?

[Chris Brierley]

Hello,

Has anyone figured out if it's possible and how to use
nnir.el to search multiple backends (in my case multiple
IMAP servers)?  What I want is to be able to process mark a
bunch of groups in the Group buffer, regardless of each
groups backend, and search them all at once.

I can get it to search one backend by setting
nnir-mail-backend to a particular one.  But, it seems I have
to change that variable every time I want to search a
different backend.

Am I missing something or does nnir only support one backend
at a time?

Thanks muchly!

Re: Using nnir.el to search multiple IMAP servers?

[Kai Großjohann]

I've been wanting to add multi-server support to nnir.el for quite a
while now.  But I've never found the time.  Too bad.

If you know a little Lisp, you could try to work on it.  You could put
the nnir variables into server parameters, then you iterate over all
servers and issue the right query.

I can't promise that I'll work on this anytime soon.

kai
-- 
Be indiscrete.  Do it continuously.

Re: Using nnir.el to search multiple IMAP servers?

[Chris Brierley]

On 2001-02-23, Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) wrote:

> I've been wanting to add multi-server support to nnir.el
> for quite a while now.  But I've never found the time.

Ah, okay.  Well, at least I know I'm not doing anything
wrong!  :)

> If you know a little Lisp, you could try to work on it.

If I find the time to do something about I'll send it to
you.