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14 From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
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15 To: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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18 Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:30:23 +0100
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22 Subject: Re: [notmuch] How to index /var/spool/mail with notmuch
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37 On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:24:47 +0100, Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:
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38 > But I get some permission problems when trying to index /var/spool/mail.
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39 > I was able to create a .notmuch/ directory in there with permissions set
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40 > to 700 for my user. All mail files are readable for my user.
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42 > Unfortunately, there are some dovecot internal files, which should
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43 > neither be indexed by notmuch, and which have 600 permissions for the
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44 > mail user. And that's where notmuch errors and stops indexing. :-(
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46 Hi Tassilo, welcome to notmuch!
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48 I'm glad you found a workaround for this problem, (thanks Jed!).
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50 But perhaps these errors should be made into warnings instead? Any
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51 thoughts on that anyone?
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53 > All "real" mail files are named "u.<number>", so it would be cool if I
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54 > could provide a pattern to notmuch matching all files I'd like to index.
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55 > And maybe the other way round (a blacklist pattern) would be useful,
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58 I've been planning on having a blacklist pattern for a
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59 while. Originally, the only difficulty in implementing it was that we
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60 had nowhere to store configuration information. But we have a
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61 configuration file now, so this would be a pretty easy thing to
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64 It's not as obvious that a whitelist pattern would be as widely useful,
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65 but it would be possible too.
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