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Subject: Re: [feature-request] Support for xpat
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Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> writes:

> There's one thing I'm missing in Gnus which offered my last newsreader
> (XNews) and this is support for the xpat command. This command is
> implemented in most modern newsserver and allows searching for
> messages with a given pattern in some header.

XPAT support would be nice.  Maybe we should consider creating a unified
way of searching.  Kai's nnir.el lets you search mail groups -- it would
be neat if nnir and XPAT searches had the same interface.