Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> This problem is known to me for quite some time, and I'm quite sure
> I've reported it several years ago, but (ironically) I cannot find
> that report in my archives ;-)
>
> The problem I'd like to report is that searching the archives of GNU
> mailing lists is unable to find hits in recent years.  For example, if
> you go to
>
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-11/index.html
>
> which is one month ago, you will see that the first archived message
> in Nov 2024 was Re: yank-media: allow users to limit image types that
> can be inserted.  Now go to
>
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/
>
> type "yank-media" into the "Search String" box, and click "Search!" --
> the result is zero(!) hits.  If you now change the search string to
> just "media", and select sorting "in chronological order", the latest
> hit you get is from 25 Feb 2021.  If you use "yank" as the search
> string, the latest hit is from 19 Mar 2021.
>
> Moreover, even if you go to
>
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-11/index.html
>
> and type "yank-media" into the search box at the top of the page, you
> get zero hits, even though there were 8 messages in Nov 2024 whose
> Subject included "yank-media".
>
> Sounds like some issue with indexing of the archives?
>
> Can this please be fixed?
>
> Thanks.

Sorry, yes, it can be fixed, I will work on it as I have time in
the next few weeks and send updates here.

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