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+From: Perttu Luukko <perttu.luukko@iki.fi>\r
+To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+Subject: Re: How to debug 'ignoring non-mail file' issues\r
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+On 2014-08-31 09:46:12, David Bremner wrote:\r
+> Perttu Luukko <perttu.luukko@iki.fi> writes:\r
+> \r
+> > I understand that the list of non-mail files is stored in the\r
+> > notmuch database and the files are completely ignored from there on.\r
+> > This actually makes it harder to debug these kind of issues since\r
+> > the list of ignored mails is only visible on the first invocation of\r
+> > 'notmuch new', unless the files are moved around. Is there some way\r
+> > to extract the list of ignored files from the database for\r
+> > inspection? Maybe 'notmuch new' could have some kind of\r
+> > --unignore-non-mail switch that would reconsider previously ignored\r
+> > files.\r
+> \r
+> I _think_ it should suffice to do something like\r
+> \r
+> find Maildir -type d -exec touch {} \;\r
+> \r
+> to force a rescan\r
+\r
+Yes, that indeed works. I'll probably move these ignored files to a\r
+separate folder for inspection.\r
+\r
+-- \r
+Perttu\r