From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 16:46:12 +0000 (+1700)
Subject: Re: How to debug 'ignoring non-mail file' issues
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Re: How to debug 'ignoring non-mail file' issues
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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
+To: Perttu Luukko <perttu.luukko@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
+Subject: Re: How to debug 'ignoring non-mail file' issues
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+Perttu Luukko <perttu.luukko@iki.fi> writes:
+
+
+> I understand that the list of non-mail files is stored in the notmuch
+> database and the files are completely ignored from there on. This
+> actually makes it harder to debug these kind of issues since the list of
+> ignored mails is only visible on the first invocation of 'notmuch new',
+> unless the files are moved around. Is there some way to extract the list
+> of ignored files from the database for inspection? Maybe 'notmuch new'
+> could have some kind of --unignore-non-mail switch that would reconsider
+> previously ignored files.
+
+I _think_ it should suffice to do something like
+
+   find Maildir -type d -exec touch {} \;
+
+to force a rescan
+
+d
+