Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 07:29:38 +0300
From: Perttu Luukko <perttu.luukko@iki.fi>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Subject: Re: 'notmuch new' trying to read non-existing files
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On 2014-08-26 13:01:22, David Bremner wrote:
> Perttu Luukko <perttu.luukko@iki.fi> writes:
> > 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'm grasping at straws a bit, but do you by chance have some fancy
> symlinks in your Maildir?  

Well this is embarrassing, but this was indeed the case. I had cleaned
the Maildir from what I thought were leftover symlinks from some time
long ago. Actually, I had a script that creates, with symlinks, a copy
of my mailbox without the dots in the directory names for use with Mutt.
I had left out parameter -T from 'ln' so my script also created weird
symlinks at ~/Maildir, and thus resurrected the links I thought I
cleaned up. And the links were indeed the problem.

Everything is working now. Sorry and thanks!

-- 
Perttu