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From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>
Subject: Re: nnimap and crossposting (Re: Moving from nnml to nnimap...)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 03:03:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tx18ykcuvgj.fsf@raeburn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oetd1o3k.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> (Kai Grossjohann's message of "Fri, 09 Jan 2004 10:13:35 +0100")

Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> writes:

>> I want those format-time-string groups to be "all mail I got during
>> month X and haven't deleted", so I can search for messages I got, but
>> am not sure from what list, as long as I know approximately when,
>> without having to pull down a summary of *all* my mail.  If I had a
>> way to do that with Gnus, I could probably make do with it being one
>> group instead of one per month.
>
> Does the IMAP "SEARCH" command allow you to do this?  If so, then it
> might be possible to tweak nnir.el so that it can do this.

Yep, according to the RFC, the search criteria include BEFORE <date>
and SINCE <date>.

> But the IMAP "SEARCH" command might be slow.

Only until enough people use it that there's enough pressure on the
implementors to make it faster. :-)

Ken



      reply	other threads:[~2004-01-13  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-24  0:59 Moving from nnml to nnimap Jinhyok Heo
2003-11-24  1:48 ` Daniel Pittman
2003-11-24 16:24   ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-11-25 17:01     ` Ken Raeburn
2004-01-02 19:17       ` nnimap and crossposting (Re: Moving from nnml to nnimap...) Ken Raeburn
2004-01-02 21:41         ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-04  3:28           ` Ken Raeburn
2004-01-04 15:13             ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-07  1:00               ` Ken Raeburn
2004-01-07  1:29                 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-07  1:40                   ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-13  7:59                   ` Ken Raeburn
2004-01-13  9:06                     ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-09  9:13                 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-01-13  8:03                   ` Ken Raeburn [this message]

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