-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Somebody claiming to be Michal Sojka wrote: > On Fri, 06 Aug 2010, Stephen Paul Weber wrote: > > Anyway. I installed notmuch a few days ago (0.1), ran the setup, ran > > notmuch new and i said it found 30000+ files, but no new mail? No searches > > return any results. What am I doing wrong? > > I guess you have your mails in a wrong fomrat. Do you see "Note: > Ignoring non-mail file" messages during notmuch new? You may also try > notmuch new --verbose. Hmm. I'm pointing it at a maildir. I deleted the .notmuch folder in the maildir and ran notmuch new --verbose with the following result: $ notmuch new --verbose Found 33065 total files (that's not much mail). No new mail. and searches turn up no results. > > I gather by other threads on the list archives that editing a message > > does not make it "new"? So notmuch just gets whatever the first > > version of the message contents it sees is? And if the file gets > > renamed (by mutt for example, when marked as read) the filename stored > > by notmuch would then be wrong? > > Yes. AFAIK notmuch assumes that messages are immutable and when you edit > the message, notmuch doesn't re-index it. Ok, so edited headers are ignored. > Notmuch new code is able to > detect renames so if you rename the file, the filename in the database > is wrong only until you run notmuch new again. Oh, cool. Good. > > This would be especially useful if notmuch re-indexed a message when I > > edit this header. > > I'm not sure how hard it would be to implement this and what would be > the performance implications. You should store modification time of a > message in the database and re-index the file when the mtime on disk in > newer than in the database. Right. An mtime-based solution would make sense to me. That should (I would think) have minor performance implications unless you edit a lot of your mail often. - -- Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma See <http://singpolyma.net> for how I prefer to be contacted edition right joseph -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJMYuyJAAoJENEcKRHOUZzen1cP/0kgDgQQDR3nDn7mnw5t6Pfh 8IGODVtxSRJ+vFfrNg3gqUDHmHdphXAlX3xjvjI3eNLDW7PqmqUuQw4fzxQ6/cEQ FBOlMq8zXze+Cus3baqYLIYltQaJRItsg4/5B4TjJXYC0r5W4Vt76wQNuBjAdDp5 EnEEpJEZypBlNyo6L33lsnkOQXnKPW/YPay5AT7FPYPIBv1BtyomJYAA6bUXEttD BhcDoq+QZyOUKmShF9p1PtpAC7fKo2AtCALIK0CTClPWQidsLR/LYFxx1UaNvSjR vG2S2H/FlyAzgYj+rgGoH/3rFLnSFjZE6rgpZsXnfQf2/KHnuzL0GSFcI0lsYlJR Fyv/V7iPIYCkf0xG1deeoZ1Y0/qNidvzBwdJ9o6uaon/SINnvBegNksNhnaTS2Gb B1J8/IHLfmOiswucz/s5lLkZL78/bJoyHRwRdARTwjHpP6ylMl+ZB7RUVILuNqc6 c0F52V3S7Jt3eyEPFM7kuFfXsoaQZSe1kwQLyaY+RjRaoLwiv90vdjpylJa0y9qC NSu8ZTNI5rIhfZuAgDUOexWn2zwiqV6r+hJIsFe7KBjVhDS9N7TE4hekNVVOz40y KDLgm9oves8H0q6ynI29uraw8nD7XJqu+O8YPwu88N0+Q96qHPPWff1iISTwKTON uFXOonuUlLm/TBn+azEJ =dX/y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----