Re: How to debug 'ignoring non-mail file' issues

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+From: Perttu Luukko <perttu.luukko@iki.fi>\r
+To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>\r
+Subject: Re: How to debug 'ignoring non-mail file' issues\r
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+On 2014-09-02 23:37:12, Jani Nikula wrote:\r
+> On Mon, 01 Sep 2014, Perttu Luukko <perttu.luukko@iki.fi> wrote:\r
+> > Yes, upgrading to GMime 2.6.20 caused all the messages on my server\r
+> > classified as mail.\r
+> \r
+> What was the old version? If it was 2.4 we should probably consider\r
+> dropping support for that in future notmuch.\r
+\r
+It was 2.4.33. It might still work for other people, I don't know. I\r
+still have some ignored mails. If I can nail down why they are ignored\r
+we might now more about why GMime 2.4 ignored even more mail. They were\r
+from around the same time period, so it might have something to do with\r
+the email setup I had at that time.\r
+\r
+> > Even more reason to give a separate warning for GMime parse errors.\r
+> \r
+> Not sure. We only get a binary success/fail from GMime, and that gets\r
+> printed for all non-email files. I'm not sure it's helpful.\r
+\r
+What I mean that there would be a separate error for cases "Does not\r
+resemble an email message at all", i.e., some control file your mail\r
+server happens to store in the mailbox, and "Looks like mail but we\r
+can't parse it", i.e., better find out why it can't be parsed to avoid\r
+potentially important messages going missing from the database.\r
+\r
+-- \r
+Perttu\r