On Fri, Nov 06 2015, Davide Mancusi <arekfu@yahoo.it> wrote: > 2015-11-06 16:14 GMT+01:00 Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>: >> How is the symlink exactly shown in ls -l /path/to/symlink output ? > > $ ls -l /home/username/local > lrwxrwxrwx 1 username group 21 Jan 23 2015 /home/username/local -> > /export/home/username And notmuch config get database.path prints /export/home/username/mail I presume ? If that is the case then this symlink should have no effect. Is there any symlinks inside /export/home/username/mail ( find /export/home/username/mail -type l ) (provided that was the database.path -- and sure there are no bind mounts ;D?) Tomi