From: "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Andrew G Cohen <cohen@andy.bu.edu>,
65196@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65196: 28.2; gnus-group-make-nnir-group always returns "no messages"
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 11:02:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878raahwi9.fsf@zedat.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875y5fyt90.fsf@zedat.fu-berlin.de> (Loris Bennett's message of "Wed, 16 Aug 2023 16:08:43 +0200")
Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
> Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
>
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>
>>> "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>>>
>>>>>> From: Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>
>>>>>> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 09:48:53 +0200
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After upgrading Debian from 11 to 12, gnus-group-make-nnir-group always
>>>>>> says that the search group contains no messages, even though there are
>>>>>> in fact messages in the original group which contain the string searched
>>>>>> for.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In *Messages* somethin like the following will appear:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Opening server fu_exchange
>>>>>> Searching nnimap+fu_exchange:HPC...done
>>>>>> Group nnselect:nnselect-87jzu3z7wb.fsf contains no messages
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The configuration in init.el is as follows:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (setq user-mail-address "loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de")
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
>>>>>> (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de")
>>>>>> (setq smtpmail-smtp-service 587)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.fu-berlin.de"))
>>>>>> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>>>>>> (quote
>>>>>> ((nnimap "fu_exchange"
>>>>>> (nnir-search-engine imap)
>>>>>> (remove-prefix "nnimap")
>>>>>> (nnimap-address "mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de")
>>>>>> (nnimap-record-commands t)
>>>>>> (nnimap-inbox INBOX)
>>>>>> (gnus-message-archive-group "nnimap+fu_exchange:Gesendete Elemente")))))
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The same problem occurs with nntp groups (not configured in this test).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Unfortunately that is all the information I can provide, although I can
>>>>>> see that it is probably insufficient to identify the problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> Andrew, any comments? Is this perhaps already fixed in Emacs 29?
>>>>
>>>> Further investigation reveal that this is not a general issue, but is
>>>> related to the specific select methods.
>>>>
>>>> For my work setup I actually have, in addition to the settings above
>>>>
>>>> (nntp "fu_news"
>>>> (nntp-address "news.fu-berlin.de")
>>>> (remove-prefix nntp)
>>>> (gnus-message-archive-group "nnimap+fu_exchange:Gesendete Elemente")))
>>>>
>>>> Searching in newgroups subscribe to via the above also always returns no
>>>> messages.
>>>>
>>>> However, in my private setup I have various email providers, such as GMX:
>>>>
>>>> (nnimap "gmx"
>>>> (nnimap-stream tls)
>>>> (remove-prefix "nnimap.")
>>>> (nnimap-record-commands t)
>>>> (nnimap-address "imap.gmx.com"))
>>>>
>>>> If I add this to my work setup, search results within folders in the GMX
>>>> account *do* produce results. Searching within the Exchange folder or the
>>>> NNTP groups still fails.
>>>>
>>>> Is there anything I can do to help debug the problem?
>>>
>>> For the exchange server, you should just remove the `nnir-search-engine`
>>> setting from the definition, it should work find by default.
>>>
>>> I don't believe search works for nntp at all -- did it used to?
>>
>>
>> Hmm, perhaps you are right. Maybe it never did. It certainly doesn't
>> work on a third laptop with Emacs 27.1. Perhaps I am just confusing
>> newsgroups and mailing lists (and mailing list posing as newsgroups via
>> Gmane) and it was actually just working for the mailing lists.
>>
>> With init.el containing just
>>
>> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.fu-berlin.de"))
>> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>> (quote
>> ((nnimap "gmx"
>> (nnimap-stream tls)
>> (nnimap-address "imap.gmx.com"))
>> (nnimap "fu_exchange"
>> (nnimap-stream tls)
>> (nnimap-address "mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de")))))
>> (custom-set-variables
>> ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
>> ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>> ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>> ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>> '(gnus-verbose 10))
>> (custom-set-faces
>> ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
>> ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>> ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>> ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>> )
>>
>> Searching within the GMX mailbox works but not in a newsgroup and the
>> Exchange mailbox. The following is shown in *Messages*:
>>
>> Opening server gmx
>> Searching nnimap+gmx:Family...done
>> Fetching headers for nnselect:nnselect-871qg4g5d5.fsf...
>> nnimap read 0k from imap.gmx.com
>> Fetching headers for nnselect:nnselect-871qg4g5d5.fsf...done
>> Sorting threads...done
>> Generating summary...done
>> Retrieving newsgroup: nnselect:nnselect-87zg2seqsg.fsf...
>> Opening server fu_exchange
>> Searching nnimap+fu_exchange:HPC...done
>> Group nnselect:nnselect-87zg2seqsg.fsf contains no messages
>> previous-line: Beginning of buffer
>> Retrieving newsgroup: nnselect:nnselect-87y1iceqsc.fsf...
>> nnselect-run: gnus-search-run-query on ((search-query-spec (query . emacs) (raw)) (search-group-spec (nntp:news.fu-berlin.de comp.emacs))) gave error (gnus-search-config-error gnus-search-config-error No search engine configured for nntp:news.fu-berlin.de)
>> Group nnselect:nnselect-87y1iceqsc.fsf contains no messages
>>
>> So I seem to be missing a search engine for the newsgroup, but as we
>> have established, that probably never worked. However, the search in
>> the Exchange mailbox just fails without further information, and that
>> definitely did used to work.
>
> Apparently Exchange does not like the character set being used. This is
> the error message that Exchange generates:
>
> SEARCH CHARSET UTF-8 TEXT hpc,"R=""6487 NO [BADCHARSET (US-ASCII)] The specified charset is not supported."
>
> I don't quite understand the error, as I would not think US-ASCII was a
> bad charset. I assume it is more likely that my using a locale with
>
> LANG=en_US.utf8
>
> might be the problem. This may have been different before I updated
> Debian.
>
> If I search for a string such as "Bestätigung" in a folder belonging to
> the GMX mail box, this also erroneously produces an empty result set.
>
> So it looks like it is not an actually problem with Gnus as such.
The problem seems to have been resolved by Eric here:
https://www.mail-archive.com/info-gnus-english@gnu.org/msg14117.html
This works for me.
Did the change make it into Gnus?
Anyway, thanks for the solution!
Cheers,
Loris
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-10 7:48 bug#65196: 28.2; gnus-group-make-nnir-group always returns "no messages" Loris Bennett
2023-08-12 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-14 7:55 ` Loris Bennett
2023-08-14 16:46 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-08-15 7:12 ` Loris Bennett
2023-08-16 14:08 ` Loris Bennett
2023-08-17 9:02 ` Loris Bennett [this message]
2023-08-18 8:21 ` Loris Bennett
2023-08-19 8:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
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