Re: [notmuch] Notmuch doesn't index new mails when mail location contains symlinks

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+Subject: Re: [notmuch] Notmuch doesn't index new mails when mail location\r
+ contains symlinks\r
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+On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:43:41 +0100, Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:\r
+> First, I only touched the two symlinks.\r
+\r
+Unfortunately, this actually touched the file pointed to by the symlink,\r
+if you stat the symlink you will see that mtime did not change.\r
+\r
+> This didn't help.  Then I used\r
+> "find . -type d | xargs touch" to touch all directories inside the\r
+> directories the symlinks point to.\r
+\r
+Actually, this would not have followed the symlinks so it does the same\r
+thing as before.  I think it is actually hard (or not possible) to\r
+change mtime on symlinks under Linux.\r
+\r
+> But still no luck.  Finally, I deleted the symlinks and created them\r
+> anew, and then it indexed the 12 new mails that arrived in the\r
+> meantime.\r
+\r
+If /var is on the same filesystem, you could use hard links instead of\r
+symlinks.  Otherwise I would just add the appropriate ln -sf in the hook\r
+before notmuch new.\r
+\r
+The real solution is for notmuch to check mtime of whatever the\r
+symlink's target.\r
+\r
+Jed\r