Re: nnmairix - new version

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Thu, Jun 05 2008, David wrote:

> I've also converted the docs at the EmacsWiki into texinfo for inclusion
> in the Gnus manual.
[ http://m61s02.vlinux.de/nnmairix.texi ]

> I've no real idea where this section would fit best. Maybe there should
> be a new section for searching/indexing mail and put it there, together
> with the documentation for nnir?

Yes.  I already had prepared a stub for this which I forgot to
commit.  So I did this now and added your nodes.  I've done some minor
markup fixes, but I think it needs more markup improvement.  I also
added some FIXMEs.

> The diff for the new version got pretty big, sorry for that. Almost
> everything deals with a new feature, allowing to propagate marks from
> articles in nnmairix groups to the original article, which was way more
> delicate than I previously thought and couldn't really be split in
> smaller parts.
[...]

I will commit this within the next few days (unless someone beats me
to it).  Now I need some sleep.

> Unfortunately, the new marks propagation feature requires a patched
> mairix binary. People who are not interested in marks propagation won't
> have to patch, but it also fixes some annoyances regarding changing
> maildir flags, so it might be useful anyway.
>
> More details can be found in the updated docs at the EmacsWiki:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GnusMairix

As nnmairix is now part of Gnus, everything the user needs to know
should be documented in Gnus.

Bye, Reiner.
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