Re: Message Threading or Interleaving Your Replies

[email protected] writes:

> For nnml, it might do a simple find-grep. For an nnimap user like
> myself, it would actually attempt a dovecot query, something I've
> struggled mightily with even without the added complication of the
> nnselect abstraction.

It uses whatever is the -search-engine. So you can set up indexing with
notmuch etc.

> But more importantly, the whole business of just-in-time search to
> reconstruct threads is like Armstrong returning to the Moon to retrieve
> his house keys.  Even in 1995 when Gnus was written, there was a clear
> notion of a message thread.  Not keeping its constituent messages
> contiguous on disk was just a basic design mistake.  With gcc-self, I
> can rectify this error without insane gymnastics.

True, but some won't want to mix. The mentioned nnvirtual is another
option.

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