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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Perttu Luukko <perttu.luukko@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: 'notmuch new' trying to read non-existing files\r
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+Perttu Luukko <perttu.luukko@iki.fi> writes:\r
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+> Hi,\r
+>\r
+> I decided to give notmuch a spin and installed version 0.18.1 on my mail\r
+> provider's shell server. The layout offered by my mail provider's\r
+> Dovecot is such that INBOX is stored in Maildir format at ~/Maildir and\r
+> other folders are stored as subfolders of ~/Maildir, filename of each\r
+> directory beginning with a period. In addition, ~/Maildir contains files\r
+> 'dovecot-uidlist' and dovecot-uidvalidity', and each subdirectory\r
+> contains an empty file 'maildirfolder' in addition to the usual cur, new\r
+> and tmp. I don't know if this is an unusual layout or not.\r
+\r
+It doesn't seem that unusual to me. At least if all the folders are in\r
+the top level of Maildir, this is the semi-standard Maildir++ format.\r
+\r
+>\r
+> When I run 'notmuch new' I get:\r
+>\r
+> Found 9903 total files (that's not much mail).\r
+> Error reading file /home/users/(username)/Maildir/.act/.act: No such file\r
+> or directory\r
+\r
+I have a Maildir++ setup myself and I don't have this problem. I ran a\r
+fresh notmuch new on Debian Stable with 0.18.1 with an ext3 file\r
+system. FWIW on that machine I have gmime 2.6.10 and xapian 1.2.12\r
+\r
+I'm grasping at straws a bit, but do you by chance have some fancy\r
+symlinks in your Maildir? \r
+\r
+d\r
+\r
+\r
+\r