Eric Abrahamsen <[email protected]> writes: > Julien Cubizolles <[email protected]> writes: > >> I used to use the "mark:flag" search query to look for ticked articles >> with gnus-search. I recently noticed that it doesn't return any articles >> anymore in groups with ticked articles. >> >> What exactly does the "flag" mark represent, and is there a better way >> to look for dormant or ticked articles ? > > These things are all search-engine dependent. Notmuch will turn > "mark:flag" into "tag:flag", and IMAP will turn it into "FLAGGED". > > What search engine are you using in this case? The first thing to try > is always shutting off search parsing (either fully, by setting > `gnus-search-use-parsed-queries' to nil, or temporarily, using the > prefix argument). Then get the search working using the search engine's > native syntax. Then come back here and tell me how it went :)
I'm using the imap search engine. When I shut off search parsing, the "FLAGGED" search query does indeed return the ticked articles, when "mark:flag" didn't. But I tried again (with search parsing on) with the query "mark:flagged" and it works ! -- Julien Cubizolles
