Re: Four questions regarding gnus for mail, and bbdb

[Zero Void <hujingcao@hotmail.com>]

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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