From: Perttu Luukko <perttu.luukko@iki.fi>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: 'notmuch new' trying to read non-existing files
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 07:29:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140827042938.GA2309@rakuuna.dhcp.inet.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738cjhvfx.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca>
On 2014-08-26 13:01:22, David Bremner wrote:
> Perttu Luukko <perttu.luukko@iki.fi> writes:
> > When I run 'notmuch new' I get:
> >
> > Found 9903 total files (that's not much mail).
> > Error reading file /home/users/(username)/Maildir/.act/.act: No such file
> > or directory
>
> I'm grasping at straws a bit, but do you by chance have some fancy
> symlinks in your Maildir?
Well this is embarrassing, but this was indeed the case. I had cleaned
the Maildir from what I thought were leftover symlinks from some time
long ago. Actually, I had a script that creates, with symlinks, a copy
of my mailbox without the dots in the directory names for use with Mutt.
I had left out parameter -T from 'ln' so my script also created weird
symlinks at ~/Maildir, and thus resurrected the links I thought I
cleaned up. And the links were indeed the problem.
Everything is working now. Sorry and thanks!
--
Perttu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-27 4:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-25 18:41 'notmuch new' trying to read non-existing files Perttu Luukko
2014-08-26 20:01 ` David Bremner
2014-08-27 4:29 ` Perttu Luukko [this message]
2014-08-28 7:01 ` Andrei POPESCU
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