From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen 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 22:20:04 +0800 Message-ID: <87y4d9q8ob.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449325244 413 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2015 14:20:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 14:20:44 +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 15:20:36 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 1a5DhT-0004xC-Fz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 15:20:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46679 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5DhS-0002I4-V6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 09:20:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36869) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5DhD-0002Hy-6D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 09:20:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5Dh9-00082L-OU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 09:20:19 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37153) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5Dh9-00080V-An for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 09:20:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a5Dh6-0004BE-5z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 15:20:12 +0100 Original-Received: from 114.248.0.149 ([114.248.0.149]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 15:20:12 +0100 Original-Received: from eric by 114.248.0.149 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 15:20:12 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 114.248.0.149 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DlpNCeOBwv+23gy8m0PUPntgv/Y= 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:108302 Archived-At: "Will O'Brien" writes: > On 4 Dec 2015 00:23, "Emanuel Berg" wrote: >> >> 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. I used the > former for a time before moving to mairix, which of course offers another > solution to the original question, plus is very fast. 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.