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Re: How to search emails in Gnus?
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prad |
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Re: How to search emails in Gnus? |
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Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:51:45 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
>> How do you search for Mails at a specific date, e.g., 2012-03-04? I
>> tried it with C-u G G, then DATE and "2012-03-04", but it didn't work.
>
> I assume you're searching an IMAP group. In that case, you can use the
> IMAP SEARCH language directly.
>
> C-u G G ON "17-Aug-2011" RET imap RET
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> The underlined thingy is the actual search query. ON <date> gives you
> all messages registered at the imap server at that date.
>
i can't seem to get this to work always see this message:
Couldn't request group: Search produced empty results.
it doesn't matter what i put into the query.
i'll keep trying some of the commands show in the IMAP4 Keyword Index.
i'm probably doing something illegible with the language.
--
in friendship,
prad