>>>>> Kai Grossjohann writes: KG> Shouldn't that be cadr rather than cdr? Yeah, you're right of course. This time nnir did send off a search query to imap, but that hung for a long time and insisted on searching all my mailboxes. Could this be because of nnimap-list-pattern? Its currently set to: (nnimap "aries" (nnimap-server-address "aries") (nnimap-list-pattern ("INBOX" "Mail/*"))) Thoughts? -rajesh