Re: [notmuch] How to index /var/spool/mail with notmuch

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+From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>\r
+To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>\r
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+Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:42:09 +0100\r
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+Subject: Re: [notmuch] How to index /var/spool/mail with notmuch\r
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+Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:\r
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+Hi Carl,\r
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+>> Unfortunately, there are some dovecot internal files, which should\r
+>> neither be indexed by notmuch, and which have 600 permissions for the\r
+>> mail user.  And that's where notmuch errors and stops indexing. :-(\r
+>\r
+> Hi Tassilo, welcome to notmuch!\r
+>\r
+> I'm glad you found a workaround for this problem, (thanks Jed!).\r
+\r
+Trying out notmuch already cashed out. ;-)\r
+\r
+> But perhaps these errors should be made into warnings instead? Any\r
+> thoughts on that anyone?\r
+\r
+I think so.  For other dovecot internal index files it already says\r
+something like "Ignoring non-mail file foobar.idx" and simply skips that\r
+file.  I think that's the right thing to do for files where it has no\r
+read permissions for, too.\r
+\r
+>> All "real" mail files are named "u.<number>", so it would be cool if\r
+>> I could provide a pattern to notmuch matching all files I'd like to\r
+>> index.  And maybe the other way round (a blacklist pattern) would be\r
+>> useful, too.\r
+>\r
+> I've been planning on having a blacklist pattern for a while.\r
+> Originally, the only difficulty in implementing it was that we had\r
+> nowhere to store configuration information.  But we have a\r
+> configuration file now, so this would be a pretty easy thing to\r
+> implement.\r
+>\r
+> It's not as obvious that a whitelist pattern would be as widely\r
+> useful, but it would be possible too.\r
+\r
+Well, for dovecot users using the dbox format, a whitelist pattern would\r
+be much simpler because of the coherent mail file naming.  But I could\r
+live with a blacklist pattern, too.\r
+\r
+Bye,\r
+Tassilo\r