Re: How to search emails in Gnus?

[Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch>]

On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 7:50:47 PM UTC+2, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch> writes:
> 
> > I recently realized that I have (require 'nnir) in my ~/.gnus.el but I
> > am missing some nnir-related functions.
> 
> Basically, there's only one user-frontend function:
> gnus-group-make-nnir-group bound to `G G' in *Group*.
> 
> > Do I have to download nnir.el and load it or should it come/be
> > installed with Gnus by default?
> 
> It comes with Gnus.  You don't even need to configure anything for
> searching IMAP and Gmane groups.
> 
> > How do you search for Mails at a specific date, e.g., 2012-03-04?  I
> > tried it with C-u G G, then DATE and "2012-03-04", but it didn't work.
> 
> I assume you're searching an IMAP group.  In that case, you can use the
> IMAP SEARCH language directly.
> 
>   C-u G G ON "17-Aug-2011" RET imap RET
>           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> The underlined thingy is the actual search query.  ON <date> gives you
> all messages registered at the imap server at that date.  For more IMAP
> search capabilities, have a look at the spec:
> 
>   http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1730#section-6.4.4
> 
> Bye,
> Tassilo

One more question: How do you know how the date format looks like? Apparently it matters, I tried "2012-08-17" (international date format) and it didn't work.