On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 08:39:02PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > As you suggested, I add notmuch@notmuchmail.org email as well.
> >
> > 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:~$
> >
> > 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
> >
> > That's all.
> >
> > Terrible!
> >
> > What happened?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Fulvio

Hi Michael.

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

GRRRR, no :-((

> 
> 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? 

Yes I did this manually:
fulvio@linux:~$ notmuch-mutt -o .mutt/<mail-box> search <SEARCH-TERM>

> It creates a maildir of symlinks with search
> results. In order to do so, it deletes the maildir ... 

I think that's the cause.

... And I think it's irreparable. Am I wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Fulvio

> Usually this  sits in a cache dir, though.
> 
> Michael
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 09:27:22AM -0700, Carl Worth wrote:
> > > Hi Fulvio,
> > >
> > > I've never used notmuch-mutt.
> > >
> > > But notmuch itself doesn't delete any mail. It's really paranoid that
> > > way, (knowing how valuable mail is).
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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?
> > >
> > > -Carl
> > >
> > > On Mon, Apr 03 2023, Fulvio Pizzigoni wrote:
> > > > Hi.
> > > >
> > > > I have installed packages notmuch and notmuch-mutt.
> > > >
> > > > During configuration process I have indicated the directory used from
> > > > Mutt for your mail-boxes.
> > > >
> > > > The configuration process have not indicated any allert.
> > > >
> > > > At the end the mail-boxes in that directory was removed; 3 new
> > > > empty sub-directory were created: cur, new, tmp.
> > > >
> > > > Was the data irremediably lost?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance.
> > > >
> > > > Fulvio Pizzigoni
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