Re: Multiple mail backends/nnir

[dsg@mitre.org (David S. Goldberg)]

>> But you might be able to kluge something by writing little functions
>> which set nnir-mail-backend and nnir-search-engine.

> Yes, but I don't have much of a clue how to proceed.

I thought about trying to integrate all this in a manner similar (I
think) to what you are asking for, but ended up with this much more
simplistic approach in my .gnus:

;;;; nnir setup
(require 'nnir)
(defun dsg-nnir-search-mail ()
  (interactive)
  (setq nnir-search-engine 'glimpse
	nnir-mail-backend '(nnml "")
	nnir-glimpse-remove-prefix "/afs/rcf/user/dsg/\\.Mail/"
	nnir-glimpse-home (expand-file-name "~/.Mail/incoming")))

(defun dsg-nnir-search-cache ()
  (interactive)
  (setq nnir-search-engine 'glimpse
	nnir-mail-backend (cdr (assoc "cache" gnus-server-alist))
	nnir-glimpse-remove-prefix ".*dsg/\\.News/cache/"
	nnir-glimpse-home (expand-file-name "~/.Mail/incoming")))

(dsg-nnir-search-mail)
;;;; end .gnus snippet

When I want to search my cache, I just have to do M-x
dsg-nnir-search-cache before running GG.
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