From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69111 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: nnir searching in huge imap folders Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:10:54 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255385611 380 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2009 22:13:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:13:31 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17525@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 13 00:13:20 2009 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 4.50) id 1MxT8m-0007CY-7F for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:13:16 +0200 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 1MxT7B-0004vr-8n; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:11:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MxT79-0004vb-Ss for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:11:35 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MxT77-00032Q-Gf for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:11:34 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1MxT76-0006bZ-00 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:11:32 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MxT76-0006VZ-Ij for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:11:32 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.231.232.getinternet.no ([84.208.231.232]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:11:32 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.231.232.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:11:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.231.232.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WMublq2KykKLijK5puxNubWXWG0= X-Spam-Score: -2.8 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69111 Archived-At: To keep the performance of my main two IMAP inboxes, I total-expire read articles in them, into archive inboxes (I `B DEL' everything I don't want to keep). I also `B m' my ticked articles manually, after the expired articles when there get to be too many of them. The problem with these archive folders, is that they have gotten too big for Gnus to handle. So the problem is then to access them. Heh... when I really, really, need some stuff that's in there, I ssh in to the IMAP server, and grep through the articles (the folders are stored as maildir and served by a dovecot IMAP server). But that's clumsy. I've read about nnir, and have planned to look into it, for quite a few years now... and I guess the time has finally come to actually do so. The behaviour I'm looking for, is to be able to enter my main inbox group, and to fire off a search from there, that will search that particular IMAP folder, as well as its archive folder, and bring back the results inside the group. Is this possible? Or is it, as is indicated in the comments in the nnir.el header, only possible to do searches from the Group buffer? The reason I want to do the search from inside an IMAP group, is that I want to limit the search expression by what's known by that context (ie. search that particular IMAP server, and search only the two IMAP folders of the group itself, and the group's archive folder). If it isn't possible to initiate the search from inside a group, is it possible to persist the above parts of the search, somehow? Thanx! - Steinar