Re: Today's articles/mails..

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Andrew Cohen <cohen@andy.bu.edu> writes:

Hi Andrew,

>     Tassilo> To get enter a group showning only the "right" articles,
>     Tassilo> there's no general way, I guess.  At least for IMAP groups,
>     Tassilo> you might be able to use a search on a group (`G G')
>     Tassilo> instead of entering it (at some point in the future, cause
>     Tassilo> date searches seem to be not implemented right now).
>
> Not true! Since nnir now supports raw imap queries you can easily
> search on the date.  Imap supports the following date-related queries:
>
> SENTBEFORE <date>
> SENTON <date>
> SENTSINCE <date>
> SINCE <date>
> BEFORE <date>
>
> (these last two are aliases for SENTBEFORE and SENTSINCE). 

Oh, cool.  In the RFC, I could see that the date is formatted as
1-Dec-2010.  Do you know if that's the only supported format?

It would be awesome if there was some nice completion mechanism
formulating IMAP queries.  For example, selecting a date with
`org-read-date' and translating it to the right format:

  (format-time-string "%d-%b-%Y" (org-read-date nil t))
  ;; C-x C-e
  ;; Select 1st December 2010
  ==> 01-Dec-2010

Bye,
Tassilo