From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Gnus and local mirroring (was: Using R-mail in Emacs) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:27:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86va7afpda.fsf@zoho.com> <83musmktmv.fsf@gnu.org> <87r2hxstkw.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <837ejplc7p.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhwlzct5.fsf@gmail.com> <87d0tgh6rx.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <87zhwko6uy.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536927994 4307 195.159.176.226 (14 Sep 2018 12:26:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 12:26:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 14 14:26:30 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g0nB7-0000yx-OY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:26:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51552 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0nDD-0008MX-Bu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:28:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38330) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0nCm-0008MS-KY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:28:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0nCi-0007uM-7D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:28:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=34103 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0nCi-0007tK-0C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:28:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g0nAZ-0000ES-LW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:25:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:F+da+DPeGicJyjmoCqpmaOAODrM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117911 Archived-At: > You could use the gnus agent to keep a local copy of your email and > search that (or offlineimap, and probably others) This is the aspect that I think needs work in Gnus: the "normal" way to work with IMAP should be to keep a local mirror, but the gnus-agent only keeps a partial mirror (hence not good enough for search, for example), and offline-imap requires significant extra manual work (and was not even really well supported by Gnus last time I tried, because if your local mirror uses maildir, Gnus didn't store the whole metadata in the Maildir but keeps some in its .newsrc.eld or something like that, so other clients connecting to the IMAP search aren't told the whole story). Stefan