From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: searching for one person's replies in a gnus mailbox only, and not the rest. Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2015 20:45:48 +0100 Message-ID: <87610cd6hf.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87d1uq2e0a.fsf@skimble.plus.com> <87egf5bulw.fsf@debian.uxu> <877fkw25zz.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <87mvts5q6v.fsf@debian.uxu> <87zixror4o.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <87poynuk6c.fsf@debian.uxu> <87y4d9q8ob.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449344158 22065 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2015 19:35:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 19:35:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 05 20:35:49 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a5IcV-0004rh-TS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 20:35:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47543 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5IcV-0001b8-14 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 14:35:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59527) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5IcB-0001b3-Sk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 14:35:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5Ic8-0006Fy-KY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 14:35:27 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33216) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5Ic8-0006Fr-Dq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 14:35:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a5Ic7-000464-3a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 20:35:23 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 20:35:23 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 20:35:23 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NMJAJjvgOjtvvFwzkVnxH4rahr4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108303 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen 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... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573