Re: wrong gnus-search in nnml folder

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Angel de Vicente <angel.vicente.garrido@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Angel de Vicente <angel.vicente.garrido@gmail.com> writes:
>> oh, indeed it was nil. Changed it and queries like "since:3d" work now
>> beautifully. What I don't get to work is compound queries like since:3d
>> from:alex (they work separetely, but nothing gets returned if I try to
>> combine two queries...
>
> just tried again today. I thought I would have to fire edebug again, but
> I tried quoting the whole query and it works fine.
>
> So, to clarify:
>
> + for simple queries I just type:
>
> Query: since:3d
>
> + for compound queries I need to quote it like:
>
> Query: "from:alex since:3d"
>
> I take it from section 9.3 of the Gnus manual that this is not intended.

No, that's not how it's supposed to work! So here's our query:

(gnus-search-transform
 (make-instance 'gnus-search-mairix)
 (gnus-search-parse-query "from:alex since:3d"))

-> "f:alex d:20230128-"

And you've confirmed that running "mairix f:alex d:20230128-" works
correctly on the command line?

There's not much other processing going on. Mairix is weird about how it
ANDs and ORs search terms -- you can only OR on the same key -- but that
shouldn't be coming into play here.

For the record, you don't really need to be using gnus-search. If you're
happy with mairix's search language, and you don't expect to ever run
searches against both nnml and nnimap backends at the same time, it
probably won't get you much.

Eric