Re: How to search emails in Gnus?

[Tassilo Horn]

Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch> writes:

> I recently realized that I have (require 'nnir) in my ~/.gnus.el but I
> am missing some nnir-related functions.

Basically, there's only one user-frontend function:
gnus-group-make-nnir-group bound to `G G' in *Group*.

> Do I have to download nnir.el and load it or should it come/be
> installed with Gnus by default?

It comes with Gnus.  You don't even need to configure anything for
searching IMAP and Gmane groups.

> 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.  For more IMAP
search capabilities, have a look at the spec:

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1730#section-6.4.4

Bye,
Tassilo