Re: How to debug 'ignoring non-mail file' issues

Subject: Re: How to debug 'ignoring non-mail file' issues

Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 23:37:12 +0300

To: Perttu Luukko, David Bremner

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: Jani Nikula

On Mon, 01 Sep 2014, Perttu Luukko <perttu.luukko@iki.fi> wrote:
> Yes, upgrading to GMime 2.6.20 caused all the messages on my server
> classified as mail.

What was the old version? If it was 2.4 we should probably consider
dropping support for that in future notmuch.

> Even more reason to give a separate warning for GMime parse errors.

Not sure. We only get a binary success/fail from GMime, and that gets
printed for all non-email files. I'm not sure it's helpful.

BR,
Jani.

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