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Peter Davis <pdavis@pageflexinc.com> writes:
> 1) "Aging" messages - this is different from expiry.  I'd like messages
> from last year to be moved to an archive group.  I could set up
> auto-expire to do this, but then I'd lose the feature of using 'expire'
> to delete unwanted messages after a week. 

This would be really nice!

>
> 2) Searching - Gnus doesn't provide any good way to search through old
> messages.  I know about nnir, but so far, I have not succeeded in
> getting a search engine running on Windows to make this work.  Without a
> good way to search, having more groups makes it more difficult to find
> messages. 

add a grep backend to nnir. I've hack nrgrep (the fastest grep I've
found) to do record reporting and add a nrgrep backend to search my
nnfolders. If you use mail-directory backends it would be trivial to
add grep to nnir.


>
> Thanks,
>