Re: nnir imap search does not work as expected

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Arkady Grudzinsky <agrudzinsky@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi, everyone,
>
> I'm using Gnus to access my Gmail account via nnimap.
>
> When I search a group using 'GG' and type query
>
> ,----
> | FROM "author@domain.com"
> `----
>
> The search produces emails containing "author@domain.com" and not
> necessarily in the "From:" header.

Imap search is pretty weird -- it wants you to specify the search key
ahead of time. If you just use GG and then type a string, it will search
all headers and the body. You can use a C-u prefix to GG to select which
key to search on (including "imap" to write the queries yourself), or
set nnir-imap-default-search-key to a different key (again, including
"imap").

Kind of weird.