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Subject: Using nnir.el to search multiple IMAP servers?
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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!