On Sat, Sep 19 2009, Peter wrote: > It turns out that the IMAP server I am using
Which IMAP server software is it? > requires the message-id be stripped of the enclosing angle brackets > when searching for messages like so: > > UID SEARCH HEADER Message-Id "xxxx.y...@foobar.com" > > Not sure who is not compliant here: Gnus/nnimap or the IMAP server? Cc-ing the developer list. Maybe someone there knows. > I found that gnus-summary-refer-article and gnus-article-refer-article > could be modified to suppress the angle brackets. That doesn't seem to > be the right solution however as I would think the fix needs to be made in > nnimap.el instead. Can anybody suggest a proper way to resolve the > problem while allowing for article referencing by message-id when > reading news through nntp and email through imap? Here's a preliminary, untested patch. Does it work for you? --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- --- nnimap.el 30 Jan 2009 18:32:29 +0100 7.59 +++ nnimap.el 19 Sep 2009 11:09:02 +0200 @@ -252,6 +252,15 @@ :type 'boolean :group 'nnimap) +(defcustom nnimap-search-mid-strip-angles t ;; nil + "Strip angles around Message-ID search. + +Some non-compliant (???) IMAP servers require to strip the angles +around Message-ID when doing an UID SEARCH." + :version "23.2" ;; No Gnus 0.12 + :group 'nnimap + :type '(choice boolean)) + (defvoo nnimap-need-unselect-to-notice-new-mail t "Unselect mailboxes before looking for new mail in them. Some servers seem to need this under some circumstances.") @@ -654,7 +663,10 @@ articles))))) (mapcar (lambda (msgid) (imap-search - (format "HEADER Message-Id \"%s\"" msgid))) + (format "HEADER Message-Id \"%s\"" + (if nnimap-search-mid-strip-angles + (gnus-replace-in-string msgid "[<>]" "") + msgid)))) articles)))) (defun nnimap-group-overview-filename (group server) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/ _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english