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Re: [h-e-w] Using Emacs for email


From: Galen Boyer
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Using Emacs for email
Date: 07 Nov 2001 10:35:59 -0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, address@hidden wrote:

>> Kai G. has written a package for this searching backends.  I
>> could look it up and let you know more if you would like.  I
>> don't have this need, or very little times, so I don't know
>> much about it.
> 
> Yes please that would interest me greatly.  I'm just to the
> point that I'd like to write my own mail reader based on the
> Gnus MIME handling libraries and the article display stuff
> but that acted like VM otherwise (normal mail program, not
> news based).  But if Gnus could do this I might be willing
> to try it as a mail reader.
> 
> Either the package itself or something I could search for.

Okay,

I found a link at the mother of all .els
http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/~stephen/emacs/ell.html

The link is:
ftp://ls6-ftp.cs.uni-dortmund.de/pub/src/emacs/nnir.el

,----[ From the documentation ]
| ;; What does it do?  Well, it allows you to index your mail using some
| ;; search engine (freeWAIS-sf and Glimpse are currently supported),
| ;; then type `G G' in the Group buffer and issue a query to the search
| ;; engine.  You will then get a buffer which shows all articles
| ;; matching the query, sorted by Retrieval Status Value (score).
| 
| ;; When looking at the retrieval result (in the Summary buffer) you
| ;; can type `G T' (aka M-x gnus-summary-nnir-goto-thread RET) on an
| ;; article.  You will be teleported into the group this article came
| ;; from, showing the thread this article is part of.  (See below for
| ;; restrictions.)
`----

Kai has written quite a few different distributions, and is one
of the most helpful people you will find on usenet.  Have any
problems, ping him or comp.emacs.help and you will get quick
response.

Good Luck.

PS, if you get it going, please report back a little summary of
your findings about how hard to use and how good it might be.

-- 
Galen deForest Boyer
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.




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