Hello David, >The rule is to look in XDG locations before inside database.path, and >those are (implicitely) defined in terms of $HOME. Still it sounds like >notmuch is getting confused by $HOME not being defined, and exiting >instead of carrying on to try the next possibility. I would be >interested in any error messages, but I'm guessing from your previous >post there isn't any. Nope. You can reproduce this problem by unsetting HOME in your shell: $ unset HOME $ notmuch --config /home/cweiske/.config/notmuch/default/config search --limit 1 test; echo $? 1 -- Regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen Christian Weiske -=≡ Geeking around in the name of science since 1982 ≡=- _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-leave@notmuchmail.org