On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Austin Clements <amdragon@mit.edu> wrote: > There should be no way to corrupt the database at this level through > the Xapian API, which means nothing libnotmuch can do (much less users > of libnotmuch) should be able to corrupt the database. If you can > reproduce the problem, it's probably a serious bug in Xapian, but it > could also have been a file system bug or even random file system > corruption. Well that's... troubling. Patrick: could you please backup and try to reproduce? Otherwise I'll assume this was a one-off situation. Austin-- think you could do a quick review of the script to double check and confirm I'm not doing anything nefarious? http://git.zx2c4.com/gmail-notmuch/tree/gmail-notmuch.py