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
prev parent 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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