Re: How to search emails in Gnus?

[Marius Hofert]

I can confirm: It also does not work under my setup for "17 Aug 2011". 
Thanks for the links, Tassilo.

Cheers,

Marius

On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 9:11:24 AM UTC+2, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch> writes:
> 
> Hi Marius,
> 
> >>   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
> >
> > One more question: How do you know how the date format looks like?
> > Apparently it matters, I tried "2012-08-17" (international date
> > format) and it didn't work.
> 
> Yes, that's a bit annoying.  IMAP doesn't specify the date format on 
> its
> own (AFAICS), but if references the standard email spec at several
> places.  That defines the date format here:
> 
>   http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc822#section-5.1
> 
> But according to that spec it should by "17 Aug 2012" which 
> doesn't work
> for me.  I have to replace the spaces with hyphens.  Well, in the end
> googling for "imap search examples" shows you the right syntax.
> 
> BTW, I accidentally referenced an obsole spec.  The current version is
> here:
> 
>   http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2060#section-6.4.4
> 
> Bye,
> Tassilo