lib/PublicInbox/NNTP.pm   |  2 +-
 lib/PublicInbox/Search.pm | 13 +++++++++++++
 t/nntpd.t                 |  2 ++

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/NNTP.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/NNTP.pm
index 267fe4b93067189661204d408a842ea8f89dfb19..23be7754445b01686a6df0e209ef539cd285553b 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/NNTP.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/NNTP.pm
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ 	my $opts = { asc => 1, limit => 1000, offset => 0 };
 	long_response($self, 0, long_response_limit, sub {
 		my ($i) = @_;
 		my $srch = $srch[0];
-		my $res = $srch->query($ts, $opts);
+		my $res = $srch->query_ts($ts, $opts);
 		my $msgs = $res->{msgs};
 		if (my $nr = scalar @$msgs) {
 			more($self, '<' .
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Search.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Search.pm
index 9ab5afe6d619860a1277314b5680350a109897b8..df02e0b567587a728cd1d2d71511d96c92bb1a74 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Search.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Search.pm
@@ -281,6 +281,19 @@
 	_do_enquire($self, $query, {num => 1, limit => 200, offset => $offset});
 }
 
+sub query_ts {
+	my ($self, $ts, $opts) = @_;
+	my $qp = $self->{qp_ts} ||= eval {
+		my $q = Search::Xapian::QueryParser->new;
+		$q->set_database($self->{xdb});
+		$q->add_valuerangeprocessor(
+			Search::Xapian::NumberValueRangeProcessor->new(TS));
+		$q
+	};
+	my $query = $qp->parse_query($ts, QP_FLAGS);
+	_do_enquire($self, $query, $opts);
+}
+
 sub lookup_message {
 	my ($self, $mid) = @_;
 	$mid = mid_clean($mid);
diff --git a/t/nntpd.t b/t/nntpd.t
index 56b1d604518558e67284580f08076eef6820c4d9..2815d8d641694073b2a62ee852735303c77c15ea 100644
--- a/t/nntpd.t
+++ b/t/nntpd.t
@@ -204,6 +204,8 @@ 		 'XHDR References 1- works (empty string)');
 	is_deeply($n->xhdr(qw(list-id 1-)), {},
 		 'XHDR on invalid header returns empty');
 
+	my $mids = $n->newnews(0, '*');
+	is_deeply($mids, ['<nntp@example.com>'], 'NEWNEWS works');
 	{
 		my $t0 = time;
 		my $date = $n->date;