Re: Bug#1130266: barfs on lost+found if mail is on its own filesystem

Subject: Re: Bug#1130266: barfs on lost+found if mail is on its own filesystem

Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:36:27 +0100

To: David Bremner

Cc: 1130266@bugs.debian.org, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: Marc Haber


On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 06:26:34AM +0900, David Bremner wrote:
>Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de> writes:
>
>>
>> Duplicating the ignore line in the new section seems to fix the issue,
>> so this remains just a "documentation" issue in the default generated
>> configuration file.
>>
>
>I see. As you probably figured out, the descriptions are meant to apply
>to the following section. If you have some ideas about how to make that
>more clear, I do plan to rework that part of the code before the next
>upstream release.

I would find it more intuitive if it was formatted like:

[database]
path=/home/mh/.mail

[user]
# User configuration
#
# Here is where you can let notmuch know how you would like to be
# addressed. Valid settings are
#
#       name            Your full name.
#       primary_email   Your primary email address.
#       other_email     A list (separated by ';') of other email addresses
#                       at which you receive email.
#
# Notmuch will use the various email addresses configured here when
# formatting replies. It will avoid including your own addresses in the
# recipient list of replies, and will set the From address based on the
# address to which the original email was addressed.
#
primary_email=---

[new]
# Configuration for "notmuch new"
#
# The following options are supported here:
#
#       tags    A list (separated by ';') of the tags that will be
#               added to all messages incorporated by "notmuch new".
#
#       ignore  A list (separated by ';') of file and directory names
#               that will not be searched for messages by "notmuch new".
#
#               NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those
#               names will be ignored, independent of its depth/location
#               in the mail store.
ignore=lost+found

[search]
# Search configuration
#
# The following option is supported here:


But I might be the person with the skewed expectations.

Greetings
Marc


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