Hi David,
* David Bremner <david@tethera.net> [13. Jul. 2017]:
> Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> writes:
>> I then downloaded parts of the archive, merged and sliced it and
>> now I have a sample of 25001 total files (that's not much mail),
>> on which notmuch new produces a xapian exeption:
>>
> 
>> As a tar.xz it weighs 28 MB.  I could provide this for download
>> if someone is interested.
> 
> For me this corpus does not produce an exception (although it does have
> one thread with 5067 messages).

I cannot view this ATM because I cannot index these emails.  When
viewd with mutt there are no such gargantuan threads.

> I'm running Debian testing, so there could be slightly different
> versions of xapian and gmime. What versions of libxapian-dev and
> libgmime-2.6-dev have you built notmuch against?

Mhm.  I'm running debian stretch.  The versions are:

0 grfz@len:/tmp$ apt-cache policy libxapian-dev libgmime-2.6-dev
libxapian-dev:
Installed: 1.4.3-2
Candidate: 1.4.3-2
Version table:
*** 1.4.3-2 500
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libgmime-2.6-dev:
Installed: 2.6.22+dfsg2-1
Candidate: 2.6.22+dfsg2-1
Version table:
*** 2.6.22+dfsg2-1 500
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


BTW:


0 grfz@len:/tmp$ apt-cache policy gcc
gcc:
Installed: 4:6.3.0-4
Candidate: 4:6.3.0-4
Version table:
*** 4:6.3.0-4 500
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0 grfz@len:/tmp$ gcc --version
gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18) 6.3.0 20170516



        

HTH, Gregor
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