Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes: Hi all, I've investigated a bit further. > [notmuch doesn't index new mails although all directories and files > are readable and writable.] In my config, I have: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- [database] path=/home/horn/Mail/Dovecot --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- In that directory, there are two symlinks pointing to the real mail location in /var/spool/mail: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- [horn@localhost][~/Mail/Dovecot][0][5213] [:)] % ll total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 horn horn 34 Nov 23 14:49 fastmail -> /var/spool/mail/fastmail/mailboxes lrwxrwxrwx 1 horn horn 29 Nov 23 14:49 uni -> /var/spool/mail/uni/mailboxes --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Whenever I delete those symlinks and created them anew, the new mails get indexed with the next "notmuch new". Of course, I could create a script that does exactly that, but there should be a better way, right? Bye, Tassilo