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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Alexei Gilchrist <te100@runbox.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: notmuch ignoring alot of emails
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 08:29:46 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ecgy505.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9359F7FC-94C5-48CA-B4C9-2FEB2C7EC398@runbox.com>

"Alexei Gilchrist" <te100@runbox.com> writes:

> Hi
>
> When I run notmuch I get a bunch (hundreds) of emails that are ignored 
> with:
>
> Note: Ignoring non-mail file: ...
>
> The files are valid maildir files but have a paragraph somewhere in the 
> body where someone has written "From ".
>

And do they also have have a line starting with "From " as the first
line? This makes them mbox files. The second "From " makes them mbox
files with multiple messages. Notmuch thinks your MDA (the thing that
made those files) is misconfigured, assuming my guess about the format
is correct.

> Is there a fix to force the recognition of maildir files in this case? I 
> thought this was a solved problem with gmime since 2.6.7.

There is not currently a way to do that. It's not a GMime problem, it's
a design choice of notmuch to avoid parsing multiple message
mbox's. That was originally added as a safety feature, and I think it
should probably stay the default. If someone wants work on adding a
configuration switch I can point them in the right direction.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-30 11:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-23  6:45 notmuch ignoring alot of emails Alexei Gilchrist
2019-03-30 11:29 ` David Bremner [this message]
2019-03-30 23:53   ` Alexei Gilchrist
2019-03-31  4:06     ` David Bremner
2019-03-31  8:52     ` Tomi Ollila
2019-03-31 11:00     ` Tomas Nordin
2019-03-31 22:02       ` Alexei Gilchrist
2019-03-31 23:27         ` David Bremner
2019-06-28 17:16 ` Alvaro Herrera
2019-06-28 20:11   ` Alvaro Herrera
2019-06-29 19:03     ` David Bremner
2019-06-29 19:09       ` David Bremner
2019-07-01 15:26         ` Alvaro Herrera
2019-06-30 17:29     ` Tomi Ollila
2019-07-01 15:36       ` Alvaro Herrera
2019-11-16 17:40         ` David Bremner
     [not found]           ` <87eey7szz6.fsf@eirikba.org>
2019-11-17 12:31             ` David Bremner
2019-11-17 13:46               ` David Bremner
     [not found]                 ` <87blt9tdjj.fsf@eirikba.org>
2019-11-19 20:18                   ` David Bremner

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