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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Perttu Luukko <perttu.luukko@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: How to debug 'ignoring non-mail file' issues\r
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+Perttu Luukko <perttu.luukko@iki.fi> writes:\r
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+> I understand that the list of non-mail files is stored in the notmuch\r
+> database and the files are completely ignored from there on. This\r
+> actually makes it harder to debug these kind of issues since the list of\r
+> ignored mails is only visible on the first invocation of 'notmuch new',\r
+> unless the files are moved around. Is there some way to extract the list\r
+> of ignored files from the database for inspection? Maybe 'notmuch new'\r
+> could have some kind of --unignore-non-mail switch that would reconsider\r
+> previously ignored files.\r
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+I _think_ it should suffice to do something like\r
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+ find Maildir -type d -exec touch {} \;\r
+\r
+to force a rescan\r
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+d\r
+\r