"Andreas Goesele" <goes...@hfph.mwn.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> with quite some effort I was able to get nnir to work together with the
> notmuch search engine. But then, differently from what I expected from
> the documentation in the manual, I discovered that obviously with the
> notmuch engine the searches are not restricted to the groups selected.
>
> Looking at the code I found this error message, commented out:
>
> ;; (when group
> ;;   (error "The notmuch backend cannot search specific groups")
>
> I guess this indeed means what it says, but as it is commented out and
> not mentioned in the manual, I would like to get some confirmation:
>
> Is it possible or not to search specific groups with the notmuch
> backend?

People have been struggling with this for a while, here's the approach
that looks most likely to solve your problem:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnus-english/2016-09/msg00065.html

What mail backend are you using for this, by the way?

Eric


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