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 <[email protected]> writes: > > Hi Marius, > > >> C-u G G ON &quot;17-Aug-2011&quot; RET imap RET > >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >> > >> The underlined thingy is the actual search query. ON > &lt;date&gt; > >> 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 _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
