Andrew Cohen <aco...@ust.hk> writes: > gmail's imap implementation is non-standard and the standard > thread-referral search doesn't seem to work properly (I never noticed > this before since most of email activity is not in gmail). Although it > will take a little time I don't think it will be very hard to get it > working. As Eric said, we can special-case gmail in gnus-search and just > have to understand the details of how gmail searching works (I think I > have already worked this out but have to do some more testing).
Yes, "thread referral search" sounds like my problem. Sounds great, thanks. > So to the original poster jibstyle209: it's not you (and it's not gnus) it's > gmail. But we should be able to work around it. Thanks for clarifying :) I am glad I did not shoot myself in the foot, as the manual specified is possible.