On Fri, 2016-11-04 at 20:47 +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:

> Do you have some other software modifying your mail store while
> you're running notmuch new?

The folder in question has my laptop's exim4 service writing to it when
my cron jobs generate email.

On Fri, 2016-11-04 at 13:26 -0300, David Bremner wrote:

> inotify sounds a bit overcomplicated and perhaps non-portable?

There are similar APIs on non-Linux OSes but there is indeed no common
API or library to abstract away this sort of feature AFAIK.

> It should probably just tolerate disappearing files better, consider
> that a warning.

That sounds like the correct solution indeed. Probably if the code
notices that a file disappeared, it should also rescan the nearby
folders to see if the file was moved instead of deleted.

> As a workaround, if you can replace background use of notmuch-new
> with notmuch-insert (and I understand this doesn't work for
> everyone), you will eliminate this kind of race condition.

Hmm, I don't think that will work for me.

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