From: David Bremner Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 20:01:22 +0000 (+1700) Subject: Re: 'notmuch new' trying to read non-existing files X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f31f70aa05c9f6d3579ec2e1d3af5fa5365d545d;p=notmuch-archives.git Re: 'notmuch new' trying to read non-existing files --- diff --git a/35/aa1fd9b87184202d64ac974caee49a58b42434 b/35/aa1fd9b87184202d64ac974caee49a58b42434 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5adcd071d --- /dev/null +++ b/35/aa1fd9b87184202d64ac974caee49a58b42434 @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8399F431FB6 + for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:01:43 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 0 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id uDNbBcnFAkEH for ; + Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:01:35 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from yantan.tethera.net (yantan.tethera.net [199.188.72.155]) + (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) + (No client certificate requested) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D2467431FAF + for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:01:35 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from remotemail by yantan.tethera.net with local (Exim 4.80) + (envelope-from ) + id 1XMMvm-0000Hb-Gn; Tue, 26 Aug 2014 17:01:26 -0300 +Received: (nullmailer pid 28891 invoked by uid 1000); Tue, 26 Aug 2014 + 20:01:22 -0000 +From: David Bremner +To: Perttu Luukko , notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: Re: 'notmuch new' trying to read non-existing files +In-Reply-To: <20140825184156.GA6905@rakuuna.dhcp.inet.fi> +References: <20140825184156.GA6905@rakuuna.dhcp.inet.fi> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.18.1+72~g028c560 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.3.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:01:22 -0700 +Message-ID: <8738cjhvfx.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 20:01:43 -0000 + +Perttu Luukko writes: + +> Hi, +> +> I decided to give notmuch a spin and installed version 0.18.1 on my mail +> provider's shell server. The layout offered by my mail provider's +> Dovecot is such that INBOX is stored in Maildir format at ~/Maildir and +> other folders are stored as subfolders of ~/Maildir, filename of each +> directory beginning with a period. In addition, ~/Maildir contains files +> 'dovecot-uidlist' and dovecot-uidvalidity', and each subdirectory +> contains an empty file 'maildirfolder' in addition to the usual cur, new +> and tmp. I don't know if this is an unusual layout or not. + +It doesn't seem that unusual to me. At least if all the folders are in +the top level of Maildir, this is the semi-standard Maildir++ format. + +> +> When I run 'notmuch new' I get: +> +> Found 9903 total files (that's not much mail). +> Error reading file /home/users/(username)/Maildir/.act/.act: No such file +> or directory + +I have a Maildir++ setup myself and I don't have this problem. I ran a +fresh notmuch new on Debian Stable with 0.18.1 with an ext3 file +system. FWIW on that machine I have gmime 2.6.10 and xapian 1.2.12 + +I'm grasping at straws a bit, but do you by chance have some fancy +symlinks in your Maildir? + +d + + +