Hi Carl, On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:27:26 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote: > > My goal is to use notmuch remotely directly on my IMAP server but there > > are problems when doing notmuch new in the dovecot tree (dovecot index > > files if I recall correctly). > > Can you describe what the specific problems are here? It would be great > to fix notmuch to work well in this scenario. > > Perhaps we would simply need a list of filename patterns to ignore? I just tested it again. My IMAP server tree is like this: On 'notmuch new', it works as expected -i.e. ignoring non-mail files such as index files. Alas, in the end it fails with an error message: Error opening /exter..../.dovecot.sieve.log: Permission denied Internal error: add_message returned unexpected value: 4 (notmuch-new.c:448) I hope it will help. /Xavier