From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/17156 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mh backend Date: 16 Sep 1998 10:06:40 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <199809151806.OAA04708@placebo.ho.lucent.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155908 31896 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:18:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:18:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "(ding)" Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA29666 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 04:08:35 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAF02515; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 02:38:16 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 16 Sep 1998 03:06:58 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA09362 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 03:06:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA29660 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 04:06:44 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.180]) by waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP id KAA04849; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 10:06:42 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: by ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de id KAA08337; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 10:06:42 +0200 Original-To: rsi@lucent.com In-Reply-To: Rajappa Iyer's message of "15 Sep 1998 14:06:12 -0400" Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070031 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.31) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17156 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17156 >>>>> On 15 Sep 1998, Rajappa Iyer said: Rajappa> 1. Message sequences. Yeah, Gnus only has one sequence -- the process-marked messages. Rajappa> 2. Picking messages based on patterns in their body or some header Rajappa> field. May I point you to `nnir.el' which will let you search all mails using freeWAIS-sf or Glimpse (beware of Glimpse being rather slow). It only works if you use the nnml or nnmh backend, though. Rajappa> 3. When I periodically delete some mail, I can folder -pack to Rajappa> renumber all the messages. With Gnus it is a lot more painful. But you don't need it as often. C-u g, then 9 9 9 9 #, then B m do the trick. kai -- OOP: object oriented programming; OOPS: object oriented mistakes