Am Mo., 3. Apr. 2023 um 20:17 Uhr schrieb Fulvio Pizzigoni
<fulviopizzigoni@libero.it>:
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> Hi Carl e thanks for your prompt answer.
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> As you suggested, I add notmuch@notmuchmail.org email as well.
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> This is what I did:
> fulvio@linux:~$ notmuch setup
> Your full name [fulvio]:
> Your primary email address [my address]: return
> Additional email address [Press 'Enter' if none]: return
> Top-level directory of your email archive [/home/fulvio/.mutt]: return
> Tags to apply to all new messages (separated by spaces) [unread inbox]: return
> Tags to exclude when searching messages (separated by spaces) [deleted spam]: return
> fulvio@linux:~$
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> After this my .mutt directory (~ 4 GB di mail-boxess) appears so:
> fulvio@linux:~$ ll .mutt
> totale 12
> drwxr-xr-x 2 fulvio fulvio 4096 18 feb 20.32 cur
> drwxr-xr-x 2 fulvio fulvio 4096 18 feb 20.32 new
> drwxr-xr-x 2 fulvio fulvio 4096 18 feb 20.32 tmp
> fulvio@linux:~$ du -h .mutt
> 4,0K    .mutt/new
> 4,0K    .mutt/tmp
> 4,0K    .mutt/cur
> 16K     .mutt
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> That's all.
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> Terrible!
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> What happened?
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Fulvio

First of all: Do you have a back-up?

notmuch itself does not delete mails, as Carl pointed out. In addition
to notmuch you mentioned notmuch-mutt. Did you run that manually or
using some mutt config? It creates a maildir of symlinks with search
results. In order to do so, it deletes the maildir ... Usually this
sits in a cache dir, though.

Michael

> On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 09:27:22AM -0700, Carl Worth wrote:
> > Hi Fulvio,
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> > I've never used notmuch-mutt.
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> > But notmuch itself doesn't delete any mail. It's really paranoid that
> > way, (knowing how valuable mail is).
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> > I would suggest you write an email to the notmuch@notmuchmail.org
> > mailing list where you will be able to reach more people likely to have
> > experience with all of the software you were using.
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> > And if you could provide more details on the actual steps you used, that
> > would be useful. For example, you said "configuration process" and "at
> > the end". But what actual commands were you running on those steps, for
> > example?
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> > -Carl
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> > On Mon, Apr 03 2023, Fulvio Pizzigoni wrote:
> > > Hi.
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> > > I have installed packages notmuch and notmuch-mutt.
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> > > During configuration process I have indicated the directory used from
> > > Mutt for your mail-boxes.
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> > > The configuration process have not indicated any allert.
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> > > At the end the mail-boxes in that directory was removed; 3 new
> > > empty sub-directory were created: cur, new, tmp.
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> > > Was the data irremediably lost?
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> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Fulvio Pizzigoni
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