From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Britt Anderson <britt@uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: 55214-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55214: Possible explanation of empty imap search using new gnus search methods?
Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 10:13:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czgqfusp.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ilqnmdqw.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Mon, 02 May 2022 21:39:03 -0700")
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> Britt Anderson <britt@uwaterloo.ca> writes:
>
>> I saw that some Exchange servers fail for UID search and it looks to
>> me like gnus-search.el is using UID search, but I don't know if that
>> is new or not. Here is one report I found about this.
>>
>> https://docs.microsoft.com/uk-ua/outlook/troubleshoot/user-interface/outlook-imap-account-cannot-download-messages
>>
>> I also don't know what the work around is, but returning to the search method of 27.1 may be an option since I can't fix my university's email server.
>
> Thanks for the report. Searching in Emacs 27.1 (done through the nnir.el
> library) also used UID search, so it seems unlikely that that's the
> problem. Can you tell me the exact search you were using that worked in
> the previous version (and via telnet), but not in Emacs 28?
We made progress on this off-list, and I've just pushed a change that
will improve gnus-search's interaction with Exchange IMAP servers.
There's more work to be done there, at some point, but I'm going to save
that for a future bug report.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-01 23:27 bug#55214: 28.1; new gnus search method failing for different imap servers in different ways Britt Anderson
2022-05-02 22:34 ` bug#55214: Possible explanation of empty imap search using new gnus search methods? Britt Anderson
2022-05-03 4:39 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-05-06 17:13 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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