Re: Flaw: notmuch-setup sets database.path instead of database.mail_root

Subject: Re: Flaw: notmuch-setup sets database.path instead of database.mail_root

Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:01:48 +0900

To: Tomi Ollila, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:


> It would make sense, indeed -- the only question I could have is that
> when one configures mail root, there is enough space for the mail files.
> In case of split config one has also ensure that the database location
> has enough fs space for the database -- database which consumes as
> much space as mail root due to all emails indexed there...
>

Not counting /tmp and similar, I wonder how many people these days have
multiple places where a non-root user can write? I grant you that "using
notmuch" is probably correlated with unusual setups, but even so.
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