Re: GNUS: how to see all recent messages?

[Sergey Organov]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Thursday,  3 Nov 2022 at 11:36, Emanuel Berg wrote:
>> Enter the group as you normally would and do
>> `gnus-summary-insert-old-articles'.
>
> And you will find, or at least I do, that the old articles inserted are
> not necessarily the most recent.  It depends on what groups make up the
> virtual group.  I know there was a discussion about this behaviour some
> months ago now on the gnus list.
>
> To get what the OP wanted, gnus would need to request a suitable number
> from each group in the virtual group, collate them, sort them, and then
> return the N desired.  It doesn't do that, AFAICT.

I wonder if it gets any easier if we limit the scope to nnml groups,
i.e., to the split mail that is locally available in corresponding GNUS
files/directories, and we consider "recent" by, say, receive time?

In essence, the aim is to find a message that I've received and read,
say, yesterday, but can't easily recall particular group it has been
split into? So, for example, ability to make a group with N last
messages taken from every of the nnml groups (NxG messages total) would
be fine as well.

Thanks,
-- Sergey Organov