This patch set adds a configuration option 'database.exclude'; a list of files/directories to be excluded when doing 'notmuch new' operation. Notes: 1) Currently the comments for newly created configuration file are not updated, so for not this is 'undocumented feature'. Should there be an empty configuration line as a placeholder ... ? 2) Whenever some already existing directory is added to the exclude list and the parent directory timestamp has not changed, notmuch new will not notice the directory has gone (as it still is there), user needs to 'touch' the parent directory before next 'notmuch new' no make notmuch notice. 3) count_files() function is not touched. The functionality there has fallen behind of add_files_recursive (maildir+tmp check and following symlinks). The question there should it be updated, or attempted to merge with add_files (as the comment says). count_files() is only called at the beginning when database is not yet initialised. Tomi notmuch-client.h | 3 ++ notmuch-config.c | 89 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- notmuch-new.c | 22 ++++++++++++- 3 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)