Re: mail group by author?

[David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>]

Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:
> Is it possible to make a temporary group consisting of mails by a
> specific person whose mail articles may be scattered across many
> different groups?  I would like to do this to this to be able to see all
> mail by given people, regardless of which groups the individual mails
> are stored in.

nnkiboze should be able to do this, but I for one never got it to work
with my mail groups. It is also pretty slow.

If you store your mails locally, you can set up mairix to index them and
use the nnmairix back end to create search groups like you describe.

There is also the nnir search back end which works with several
different search engines, including the IMAP search features, so if
you're using nnimap this might be the easiest solution (nnmairix can be
used via ssh, but that's a bit cumbersome to set up).

Maybe the Gnus registry could be used for creating such temporary
groups, but as far as I know there's nothing implemented yet that does
what you want right away.

-David