From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 13:09:44 +0000 (+1800)
Subject: Re: weird paths in notmuch database
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Re: weird paths in notmuch database
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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
+To: Davide Mancusi <arekfu@yahoo.it>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
+Subject: Re: weird paths in notmuch database
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+Davide Mancusi <arekfu@yahoo.it> writes:
+
+> Hi all,
+>
+> I have noticed that notmuch ends up with non-existing paths to some
+> messages. For instance:
+>
+> $ notmuch search --output=files 'path:/home/**'
+> /export/home/username/mail//home/username/local/mail/archive/cur/1446805732.2711_9.hostname:2,S
+> /export/home/username/mail/archive/cur/1446805732.2711_9.hostname:2,S
+> [...] # more follow
+>
+
+I'm not sure if there are really bad paths in the database, or notmuch
+is just handling illegal search syntax badly. To quote
+notmuch-search-terms(7):
+
+   The directory must be specified relative to the top-level maildir
+   (and without the leading slash).
+
+Please try with correct search syntax in order to narrow down the
+problem.
+
+