On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:00:27 -0500, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote: > Later runs of "notmuch new" won't scan these files again and won't > print warnings. > > Various programs (Dovecot, in my case) store indexes and caches and > such in the maildir. Without this, notmuch persistently complains > about such files. > --- LGTM... > Every time I run notmuch new I get a slew of these warnings. It was > starting to get on my nerves, so I implemented the solution suggested > by the TODO file. [ ... ] > -large so the detection could be potentially slow). 2. A "notmuch > -search" syntax could be added to allow the user to find these files, > -(and perhaps delete them or move them away as appropriate). > +Add a "notmuch search" syntax to allow uses to find files recorded as > +non-emails in the database (and perhaps delete them or move them away > +as appropriate). Could these messages be tagged with some fixed tag -- we already have 'signed' and 'attachment' tag. maybe 'nonemail' (or something) could be used for these messages ? Tomi