From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:55:40 +0100
In-Reply-To: <87ws1hldmu.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (Tassilo Horn's message of
	"Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:49:29 +0100")
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Subject: [notmuch] Notmuch doesn't index new mails when mail location
	contains symlinks (was: Notmuch doesn't index new mails)
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Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

Hi all,

I've investigated a bit further.

> [notmuch doesn't index new mails although all directories and files
> are readable and writable.]

In my config, I have:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
[database]
path=/home/horn/Mail/Dovecot
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

In that directory, there are two symlinks pointing to the real mail
location in /var/spool/mail:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
[horn@localhost][~/Mail/Dovecot][0][5213]
[:)] % ll
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 horn horn 34 Nov 23 14:49 fastmail -> /var/spool/mail/fastmail/mailboxes
lrwxrwxrwx 1 horn horn 29 Nov 23 14:49 uni -> /var/spool/mail/uni/mailboxes
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Whenever I delete those symlinks and created them anew, the new mails
get indexed with the next "notmuch new".  Of course, I could create a
script that does exactly that, but there should be a better way, right?

Bye,
Tassilo