Re: how do i use nnir with notmuch?

[physiculus]

"Fraga, Eric" <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
hello,
thank you for this answer.
it works!
but if i want to search for messages with a from: query, the results
contains messages in which the from: address appears inside the to:
also.
e.g.: from: zz@hotmail.de
then the query contains messages with to: zz@hotmail.de.

this phenomene appears also inside a query, which i start inside notmuch-mode.
perhaps there is a configuration option to show ONLY from: inside a
query with from:

any ideas?
Regards
Poul

> On Thursday, 23 Jan 2020 at 19:43, physiculus wrote:
>> i try to use notmuch with gnus for my nnmaildir. therefore i put notmuch
>> inside default search engine.
>> but unfortunately a query always result with empty results.
>> does anybody knows if this engine works?
>
> Yes, notmuch works, at least for nnml in my case.  You have to create
> and update the search database using "notmuch new" periodically outside
> gnus.  I use crontab for this.
>
> Within gnus, you have to do something along these lines:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (require 'nnir)
>   (push '(nnml . notmuch) nnir-method-default-engines)
>   ;; the following turns off new behaviour that limited search to specific 
> groups
>   (setq nnir-notmuch-filter-group-names-function nil)
> #+end_src 
>
> Finally, you may have to define appropriate settings (e.g. the database)
> in your ~/.notmuch-config configuration file.
>
> HTH,
> eric