Re: GNUS: how to see all recent messages?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Wednesday,  2 Nov 2022 at 22:42, Björn Bidar wrote:
>> I've been only a gnus user quite recently but I think the nnvirtual
>> backends would work for that use case.
>
> I use virtual groups and they won't work for this use case. The
> retrieval of "old" articles does not retrieve from all groups involved +
> sort + select... which is what would be necessary.

If your Emacs/Gnus has gnus-search, you can do this with a search group,
though all backends involved will have to have some sort of search
indexer on them. Mark the groups you want to include, and use "G g" to
create a permanent search group. The query should be something like
"-mark:read".