Re: Four questions regarding gnus for mail, and bbdb

Re: Four questions regarding gnus for mail, and bbdb

[Zero Void]

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> upro@gmx.net (Michael J.) writes:
>
>> 2. SEARCH ALL MAILBOXES
>> I use nnfolder as backend. I can't find a way to search all my mail
>> for a string in one pass (there is such a function in sylpheed, for
>> example, or in other mailreaders).
>
> You _could_ make an nnvirtual group comprising all your nnfolder
> groups and then search there (with M-s).  But this would be quite
> slow.
>
> There is nnir.el which can use a search engine to search your mail.
> Different search engines can be plugged into it.  nnir.el needs some
> program that produces output from which the group name and the article
> number can be parsed.  For nnml, it's simple: the filename contains
> both the group name and the article number.  That's why nnir.el comes
> with support for some search engines in conjunction with nnml.  For
> nnfolder, it's not so simple.  That's why there is no built-in
> support.
>
> Nevin Kapur (I think) has written grepmail support for nnir.el.  I
> still haven't gotten around to integrating it (after more than a
> year!).  I'm not sure if that will help in your circumstance, but it
> might.

Can this also be adapted to nnimap?

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Re: Four questions regarding gnus for mail, and bbdb

[Kai Großjohann]

Zero Void <hujingcao@hotmail.com> writes:

> Can this also be adapted to nnimap?

nnir.el comes with support for searching via IMAP.  The good part is
that IMAP supports a search command and nnir.el allows you to use it.
The bad part is that the search command leaves a lot to be desired,
depending on the implementation on the server.  (Speed, for example.)
But you could try it to see if you like it.

nnir thinks that searching via IMAP is slow, so you have to use # to
process-mark some groups to search in, before hitting G G (?) to search.

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