From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1634 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Zero Void Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Four questions regarding gnus for mail, and bbdb Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:29:12 -0500 Organization: I don't know Message-ID: References: <84d6nzme03.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668352 12137 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:45:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:45:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:27 2006 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.ece.cmu.edu Original-X-Trace: nntp.ece.cmu.edu 1040243480 5625 128.2.133.104 (18 Dec 2002 20:31:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: gripe@ece.cmu.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Dec 2002 20:31:20 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:t/J7jYB1/kmLPijDi6DUKwp9fPQ= Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!malgudi.oar.net!news.ysu.edu!nntp.ece.cmu.edu!not-for-mail Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1774 Original-Lines: 31 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1774 Tue Jan 17 17:29:27 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1634 Archived-At: 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? -- You are always doing something marginal when the boss drops by your desk.