On Fri, Nov 06 2015, Davide Mancusi <arekfu@yahoo.it> wrote:

> 2015-11-06 14:09 GMT+01:00 David Bremner <david@tethera.net>:
>>> $ notmuch search --output=files 'path:/home/**'
>>> /export/home/username/mail//home/username/local/mail/archive/cur/1446805732.2711_9.hostname:2,S
>>> /export/home/username/mail/archive/cur/1446805732.2711_9.hostname:2,S
> [...]
>>
>>    The directory must be specified relative to the top-level maildir
>>    (and without the leading slash).
>>
>> Please try with correct search syntax in order to narrow down the
>> problem.
>
> The unusual search was just to illustrate the problem. I get the paths
> even with tag searches, like so:
>
> $ notmuch search --output=files
> 'id:20151106102835.GA2711@hostname.domain.com'
> /export/home/username/mail//home/username/local/mail/archive/cur/1446805732.2711_9.hostname:2,S
> /export/home/username/mail/archive/cur/1446805732.2711_9.hostname:2,S


How is the symlink exactly shown in  ls -l /path/to/symlink  output ?

(you can do the s/$USER/username/ conversion :)

Tomi