Re: nnimap vs. nnmaildir

[Tassilo Horn]

Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Richard,

>> Out of couriosity: Is there a special reason you're using mairix
>> instead
>
> Not really, other than finding an article about it a while back.
>
>> of Dovecot's Squat full text search engine?  That indexes new mail
>> automatically and also works for non-ascii text in mails.
>
> Thanks for the heads up! How do you integrate gnus with it though?

Like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
             '(nnimap "Fastmail"
                      (nnimap-address "localhost")
                      (nnimap-stream network)
                      (nnimap-authenticator login)
                      (nnir-search-engine imap))) ;; <-- THIS LINE
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Then you can search a group (or a set of marked groups) with `G G'.

> Just to be sure we're singing from the same hymn sheet : by "index" I
> mean to enable fast searches using nnmairix-search.

Yes, that's what I talk about to, but here this work is done on the imap
side completely.

> How is your gnus set up to work with this Squat? Sounds interesting.

Like stated above.  On the dovecot side it's only one line, too.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
protocol imap {
  mail_plugins = fts fts_squat # <-- THIS LINE
  listen = 127.0.0.1:143
  ssl_listen = 127.0.0.1:943
}
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Bye,
Tassilo