From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57923 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: James Leifer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Searching emails on an IMAP server? Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:28:18 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: Reply-To: James Leifer NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087803119 18905 80.91.224.253 (21 Jun 2004 07:31:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 07:31:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6464@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jun 21 09:31:50 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BcJHS-0005Qv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:31:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BcJEG-0005dg-00; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 02:28:32 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BcJE8-0005dY-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 02:28:24 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BcJE6-00049i-GU for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 02:28:22 -0500 Original-Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5319E3A0034 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 02:28:21 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from muscadet.inria.fr (muscadet.inria.fr [128.93.8.12]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5L7SJEV005412 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:28:19 +0200 Original-Received: by muscadet.inria.fr (Postfix, from userid 11404) id EC13D7A59; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:28:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Niklas Morberg's message of "Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:13:33 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 40D68E13.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57923 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57923 Niklas Morberg writes (snipping liberally) > Ah, so you already have all your mails available locally? Yes. > Maybe I could run a cron job that copies mail off my IMAP > server and stores them locally (just like Zoe)? Perhaps you could look at offlineimap which is supposed to do this kind of copying well. I assume you have no access to the machine that runs the imap server? If you did have access, you could probably do what I do locally but on *that* machine. Then when you wanted to search, you would be able to do: ssh imap-server search-and-populate-folder-script "my search string" and view the results folder through any imap client back on your local machine. > Thanks for your reply James, I'll do some more googling to > see if I can come up with anything else. You're welcome. Let us know what you discover! -J