From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/55988 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Raeburn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap and crossposting (Re: Moving from nnml to nnimap...) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 03:03:08 -0500 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87he0ur0yg.fsf@enki.rimspace.net> <4nisl9envb.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <87oetd1o3k.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073981011 3934 80.91.224.253 (13 Jan 2004 08:03:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 08:03:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M4528@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jan 13 09:03:28 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 1AgJWK-0007dF-00 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:03:28 +0100 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 1AgJW6-0001OK-00; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:03:14 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AgJW2-0001OF-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:03:10 -0600 Original-Received: from smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.62]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1A853A003B for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:03:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from 216-15-127-174.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com ([216.15.127.174] helo=raeburn.org) by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #4) id 1AgJW1-0006FH-00 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 03:03:09 -0500 Original-Received: from kal-el.raeburn.org ([2002:d80f:7fae:1:201:2ff:fe23:e26d]) by raeburn.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i0D838C23070; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 03:03:08 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from raeburn by kal-el.raeburn.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AgJW0-0007At-00; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 03:03:08 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87oetd1o3k.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> (Kai Grossjohann's message of "Fri, 09 Jan 2004 10:13:35 +0100") Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.1.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55988 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55988 Kai Grossjohann 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 and SINCE . > 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