IMAP "SEARCH" capability?

IMAP "SEARCH" capability?

[Chris Shenton]

Previously, when I accessed locally-stored mail with nnml, I ran
glimpse on the mail files every night then used "nnir" to search it.

I recently switched to using Gnus' nnimap, currently against a
courier-imap server.  I'm currently using Gnus v5.10.2.  I can't find
a search feature for imap.

When I've used Mozilla's mail client against the same server I can use
its "Search Messages" function and find it very helpful.  I can't find
anything similar in the Gnus *info* docs or by scanning the source
code.

Am I missing a search function?  Are there alternatives?

Thanks.

Re: IMAP "SEARCH" capability?

[Bjørn Mork]

Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> writes:

> Previously, when I accessed locally-stored mail with nnml, I ran
> glimpse on the mail files every night then used "nnir" to search it.
>
> I recently switched to using Gnus' nnimap, currently against a
> courier-imap server.  I'm currently using Gnus v5.10.2.  I can't find
> a search feature for imap.

(setq nnir-search-engine 'imap)

Depending on your version of nnir you may also have to do something
like (setq nnir-mail-backend (nth 0 gnus-secondary-select-methods))


Bjørn
-- 
It's well known that you remind me of Karl Marx.  

Re: IMAP "SEARCH" capability?

[David S Goldberg]

I use nnir for that capability.  If you don't see imap there, then
perhaps you need a newer version.  The one I use is quite old but it
works well enough that I haven't found a need to go searching for a
newer one (though I'm fairly certain I've seen Kai announce them).

`nnir-version' is a variable declared in Lisp.
  -- loaded from "nnir"

Value: "$Id: nnir.el,v 1.68 2001/05/26 23:34:07 grossjoh Exp $"

-- 
Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net

Re: IMAP "SEARCH" capability?

[Amos Gouaux]

>>>>> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:58:38 -0400,
>>>>> David S Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net> (dsg) writes:

dsg> I use nnir for that capability.  If you don't see imap there, then
dsg> perhaps you need a newer version.  The one I use is quite old but it
dsg> works well enough that I haven't found a need to go searching for a
dsg> newer one (though I'm fairly certain I've seen Kai announce them).

dsg> `nnir-version' is a variable declared in Lisp.
dsg>   -- loaded from "nnir"

dsg> Value: "$Id: nnir.el,v 1.68 2001/05/26 23:34:07 grossjoh Exp $"

Does anybody have a mirror of this?  Kai's old site

ftp://ls6-ftp.cs.uni-dortmund.de/pub/src/emacs/nnir.el

appears to be down.  I noticed he posted in here not long ago that
nnsearch.el is/will be replacing nnir.el, but it seems nnsearch.el
doesn't yet have IMAP support?

-- 
Amos

Re: IMAP "SEARCH" capability?

[Torsten Hilbrich]

David S Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net> writes:

> I use nnir for that capability.  If you don't see imap there, then
> perhaps you need a newer version.  The one I use is quite old but it
> works well enough that I haven't found a need to go searching for a
> newer one (though I'm fairly certain I've seen Kai announce them).

I have made some changes to nnir concerning IMAP searches:

- the current group is searched if no group is marked
  (an error was signalled before)

- Using the prefix argument C-u you can select whether to search
  the full message (the only option before that change), a list
  of well known headers, or any header input in the minibuffer.
  I use completing-read here with history support.

I made the changes based on:

;; $Id: nnir.el,v 1.1.1.1 2003/04/04 20:16:09 lolando Exp $

Here is one variable introduced to give you an impression of what has
been added.

(defvar nnir-imap-search-arguments
  '(("Whole message" . "TEXT")
    ("Subject" . "SUBJECT")
    ("To" . "TO")
    ("From" . "FROM")
    (nil . "HEADER \"%s\"")))

If anyone is interested, I could either send the changes via private mail
or to the list (please tell me if that would be okay).  The
new definitions are about 80 lines.

        Torsten

BTW: Is Kai still maintaining the nnir.el code?
BTW2: License of the changes is, of course, GPL.

Re: IMAP "SEARCH" capability?

[Torsten Hilbrich]

[Note: Repost, the first message was with from wrong from header]

David S Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net> writes:

> I use nnir for that capability.  If you don't see imap there, then
> perhaps you need a newer version.  The one I use is quite old but it
> works well enough that I haven't found a need to go searching for a
> newer one (though I'm fairly certain I've seen Kai announce them).

I have made some changes to nnir concerning IMAP searches:

- the current group is searched if no group is marked
  (an error was signalled before)

- Using the prefix argument C-u you can select whether to search
  the full message (the only option before that change), a list
  of well known headers, or any header input in the minibuffer.
  I use completing-read here with history support.

I made the changes based on:

;; $Id: nnir.el,v 1.1.1.1 2003/04/04 20:16:09 lolando Exp $

Here is one variable introduced to give you an impression of what has
been added.

(defvar nnir-imap-search-arguments
  '(("Whole message" . "TEXT")
    ("Subject" . "SUBJECT")
    ("To" . "TO")
    ("From" . "FROM")
    (nil . "HEADER \"%s\"")))

If anyone is interested, I could either send the changes via private mail
or to the list (please tell me if that would be okay).  The
new definitions are about 80 lines.

        Torsten

BTW: Is Kai still maintaining the nnir.el code?
BTW2: Of course the changes are licensed throught the GPL.

Re: IMAP "SEARCH" capability?

[Kai Grossjohann]

Torsten Hilbrich <gnus@myrkr.in-berlin.de> writes:

> BTW: Is Kai still maintaining the nnir.el code?

I'm trying to, and failing.  Too little time :-/ From time to time, I
incorporate patches that people send, without testing them.  It's not
a desirable state of affairs.

Maybe committing it to the contrib directory will help in one way or
another.

I also don't really have time to work on nnsearch now.

But my newborn daughter is just more fun!  8-)

> BTW2: Of course the changes are licensed throught the GPL.

If it is to be part of Gnus, copyright assignment will be needed.
Are you willing to do the paperwork?

Re: IMAP "SEARCH" capability?

[Adam Sjøgren]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 23:10:08 +0200, Kai wrote:

> I also don't really have time to work on nnsearch now.

> But my newborn daughter is just more fun!  8-)

Congratulations!

Given your contributions I think you can easily be excused :-)


  Best regards,

-- 
 "Vi är små citroner"                                         Adam Sjøgren
                                                         asjo@koldfront.dk

Re: IMAP "SEARCH" capability?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Kai Grossjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net> writes:

> I also don't really have time to work on nnsearch now.
>
> But my newborn daughter is just more fun!  8-)

Congratulations.  :-)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen