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27 From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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28 To: Perttu Luukko <perttu.luukko@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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29 Subject: Re: How to debug 'ignoring non-mail file' issues
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52 Perttu Luukko <perttu.luukko@iki.fi> writes:
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55 > The vast majority of these ignored mails are not ignored after I
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56 > transfer them with offlineimap to another computer. I can non-ignore
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57 > these files probably by copying the renamed file back to the mail
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58 > server, so this is fixable. Offlineimap shouldn't mess with the file's
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59 > contents, so is there something that can cause notmuch to ignore a file
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60 > based on its name?
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62 The most likely cause is that the files are mboxes, whether intentional
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63 or not. In particular if they start with a "From " (note the lack of :)
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64 and contain a second "From " at the beginning of a line later in the
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65 file. In this case something like sed can replace the initial
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66 "From " with "X-Envelope-From: ".
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68 I agree that the error message could be more informative in this case.
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