On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:39:57 +0100, Dominik Epple <dominik.epple@googlemail.com> wrote: > So the problem stems indeed from too many too large files being > present. (I actually found some being as large as 40M, not just 2.4M, > as written in previous mails.) That's very good to know. And I'm glad you at least have things working smoothly now. So perhaps the new configuration option we want is a limit on message size? Rather than ignoring large files entirely, notmuch could just stop indexing messages past the configured limit? -Carl