There is nnreddit.

There is also the RSS feed (add “.rss” to a subreddit’s url). But that only has the posts, not the comments.

One approach would be to use the ace-isearch package or a custom keybinding and function (like the one shown here) to use isearch first and its “C-w” binding to yank the words, and then switch over to consult-line using the same query.

What clicked it for me was realizing how simple the configuration could be. You only need to change a single line in the dovecot config to get it working (not including a bit more for the search plugin).

There were some old guides online with the dovecot command to include in the Gnus config, but that has changed, so I had to figure out the updated command to use. I can post that later if you like.

Nnmaildir works great for archives, but when I tried using it for my inbox and other folders, it didn’t work out very well. Can’t remember exactly what the problems were right now though.

I ended up installing dovecot, along with one of the search engines it can use for server side imap searching. It works really well, is really fast, and didn’t require setting up user databases or any of that stuff.