+ push @try, "m:$chop";
+ push @try, "m:$chop*";
+ }
+
+ # break out long words individually to search for, because
+ # too many messages begin with "Pine.LNX." (or "alpine" or "nycvar")
+ if ($mid =~ /\w{9,}/) {
+ my @long = ($mid =~ m!(\w{3,})!g);
+ push(@try, join(' ', map { "m:$_" } @long));
+
+ # is the last element long enough to not trigger excessive
+ # wildcard matches?
+ if (length($long[-1]) > 8) {
+ $long[-1] .= '*';
+ push(@try, join(' ', map { "m:$_" } @long));
+ }
+ }
+
+ foreach my $m (@try) {
+ # If Xapian can't handle the wildcard since it
+ # has too many results. $@ can be
+ # Search::Xapian::QueryParserError or even:
+ # "something terrible happened at ../Search/Xapian/Enquire.pm"
+ my $mset = eval { $srch->mset($m, $opt) } or next;
+ my @mids = map {
+ $_->{mid}
+ } @{$srch->mset_to_smsg($ibx, $mset)};
+ return \@mids if scalar(@mids);
+ }
+}
+
+sub ext_msg_i {
+ my ($other, $ctx) = @_;
+
+ return if $other->{name} eq $ctx->{ibx}->{name} || !$other->base_url;
+
+ my $mm = $other->mm or return;