Re: searching for one person's replies in a gnus mailbox only, and not the rest.

[Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

>>> The reason it didn't work earlier was that I tried
>>> it on mail.misc and mail.sent which both use nnml
>>> and not nntp as does Gmane! Good to know, only
>>> optimally, the same should work transparently for
>>> both nnml and nntp, right?
>>
>> I believe it can be configured to work with nnml.
>> You will need a custom nnir backend. IIRC namazu
>> and swish(e|++) can both be used here. ...
>
> Right -- I think the main point, implicit in Will's
> answer, is that Gnus doesn't index or search
> anything by itself. Nnir is its interface to the
> search functionality provided by any given backend.
> Backends like nnimap and nntp come with their own
> search abilities, but nnml is just files on disk:
> you need a program to do the searching, then nnir
> will talk to that program.

OK, so it should work like this:

    nnml -> nnir -> namazu, or swish(el++)

I'll be back if/when I get it to work...

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