From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18893 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: nnir notmuch search on specific groups? Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 20:48:27 -0700 Message-ID: <87o9bohsdw.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87a7n8s2np.fsf@hfph.mwn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1540094131 4499 195.159.176.226 (21 Oct 2018 03:55:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 03:55:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 21 05:55:27 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gE4pr-00014V-59 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2018 05:55:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57369 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gE4rx-0002gg-KI for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2018 23:57:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41534) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gE4rr-0002TS-00 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2018 23:57:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gE4jE-0004rm-V5 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2018 23:48:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=42084 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gE4jE-0004rP-O4 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2018 23:48:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gE4h5-0008PH-KR for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2018 05:46:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:DxRyN45mrSfYsRNE3jQ2vYE+91U= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "info-gnus-english" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:18893 Archived-At: "Andreas Goesele" writes: > Hi, > > with quite some effort I was able to get nnir to work together with the > notmuch search engine. But then, differently from what I expected from > the documentation in the manual, I discovered that obviously with the > notmuch engine the searches are not restricted to the groups selected. > > Looking at the code I found this error message, commented out: > > ;; (when group > ;; (error "The notmuch backend cannot search specific groups") > > I guess this indeed means what it says, but as it is commented out and > not mentioned in the manual, I would like to get some confirmation: > > Is it possible or not to search specific groups with the notmuch > backend? People have been struggling with this for a while, here's the approach that looks most likely to solve your problem: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnus-english/2016-09/msg00065.html What mail backend are you using for this, by the way? Eric